Sentences with phrase «emergence in evolution»

This understanding of «organism» makes clear the relatedness of emergence of properties of hierarchically structured wholes and emergence in evolution.

I think that Birch's setting of the problem is essentially correct and that his solution in terms of attributing subjectivity to all entities, even particles, does show a necessary condition for emergence in evolution.

The suggestion that I wish to add is that another metaphysical presupposition is necessary for emergence in evolution — that of internal relations.

Not exact matches

VANCOUVER, B.C. — SEPTEMBER 21, 2016 — The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) is pleased to announce the launch of a new «Contemporary China» research report series that explores the emergence and evolution of key sectors in China, including financial technology, health care and state - owned enterprise reform.

The emergence of Evangelical Catholicism is a Spirit - led development reflecting the cultural contingencies of history, like other such evolutions over the past two millennia: the evolution from the primitive Church to the Church of the Fathers; the evolution from patristic Catholicism to medieval Catholicism; the development of Counter-Reformation Catholicism (the Church in which anyone over sixty today was raised) from medieval Catholicism.

We believe that we can find the emergence of cultural elements in some animal species, and that these cultural elements affect their evolution.

In fact allowances can also thus be made for the role of chance in the emergence of life and in the mutations that are required for the evolution of new specieIn fact allowances can also thus be made for the role of chance in the emergence of life and in the mutations that are required for the evolution of new speciein the emergence of life and in the mutations that are required for the evolution of new speciein the mutations that are required for the evolution of new species.

The emergence of new forms in time thus implies that at any particular moment of evolution the possibilities are more varied than those that have been actualized up to that time.

Therefore, if we use as our axis of measurement the emergence and expansion of «mentality,» we can maintain that there has indeed been a certain «directionality» in evolution.

Now those who accept the evolutionary perspective are generally agreed that the universe is one single process and that there are stages in the process: the evolution of matter, next the emergence of the first unicellular organisms, then a process of further evolution of life toward vegetative and animal life, and from this latter phase emerged man.

It is also entirely consistent with the patterns we notice in cosmic emergence for us to maintain that the human sphere of mentality is now being invited by the «forces of evolution» to leave itself open to an informing and patterning by a yet higher and more «conscious» level.

The sequence in the emergence of creatures in the biblical creation story and in the view of contemporary science, including the issue of evolution, is not discussed.

(Which already cosmology does, in the same way that evolution describes all of life whether or not it covers emergence of life, by way of LCDM respectively UCA.)

The intent of this paper is to present a conceptual model of a physical and biological universe in a state of constant change and evolution, based on three principal ideas: (a) neo-Aristotelian notions of reciprocal causality, (b) chaotic dynamics and contingencies of self - organizing systems, and (c) emergence of consciousness and sense of moral purpose in...

Not only is the development of consciousness into intellect contingent in the evolution of the cosmos, the precise form it took was utterly unforeseeable, and the story one tells about it is always revisable in light of future emergences (as Hausman has so effectively argued).

The «old synthesis» broke down in the face of two overwhelming factors, namely the denial of objective truth, implicit in the philosophies of the enlightenment, and the emergence of a dynamic worldview, implicit in the discovery of evolution and the emergence of the new physics.

The consortium describes the Templeton Foundation as having «made up to $ 3 million available for research grants to stimulate and sponsor new research insights directly pertinent to the «great debate» over purpose in the context of the emergence of increasing biological complexity, ranging from the biochemical level to the evolution of life andthe emergence of society and culture.»

Nothing would be more out of character with mystery, with nature and its evolution, or with history and selfhood, than a drab homogeneity in any phase of cosmic emergence.

Yours faithfully, Christopher Keeffe 155 Butler Road West Harrow Middlesex EVOLUTION AND THE ORIGIN OF THE HUMAN BODY Dear Fr Editor, In your comment on Fr Kevin O'Donnell's letter, in your November - December issue, you use the words «emergence», «progress» and «evolution» in connection with the origins of the huEVOLUTION AND THE ORIGIN OF THE HUMAN BODY Dear Fr Editor, In your comment on Fr Kevin O'Donnell's letter, in your November - December issue, you use the words «emergence», «progress» and «evolution» in connection with the origins of the human bodIn your comment on Fr Kevin O'Donnell's letter, in your November - December issue, you use the words «emergence», «progress» and «evolution» in connection with the origins of the human bodin your November - December issue, you use the words «emergence», «progress» and «evolution» in connection with the origins of the huevolution» in connection with the origins of the human bodin connection with the origins of the human body.

The process of synthesis by which azoic elements have reached their present multiplicity and complexity is an evolution, the same process entirely as the biologist traces in the order of living things, and the synthetic chemical compound embodies in itself a complex relativity capable of being expressed in most exact laws, which reflect the evolutionary emergence of its substance as much as do the organs of an animal explained in terms of evolutionary development.

This abrupt turn from a causal theory of consciousness to talk about emergent properties not only leaves the puzzle about causality dangling, it compounds the mystery by evoking still more elementary puzzles about the meaning of emergence and evolution, as well as about how and where to locate sentience in an evolving «physical world.»

16 In lectures delivered between November 21 and December 16, 1924, however, Whitehead does discuss evolution and emergence in more cosmological terms — but in a manner that is entirely innocuous, unsystematic, and which gives no evidence whatever of interest in or influence of other evolutionary cosmologies: e.g.,» Evolution is the production of superior types out of inferior types» (MW 266; cf. 267 - 69In lectures delivered between November 21 and December 16, 1924, however, Whitehead does discuss evolution and emergence in more cosmological terms — but in a manner that is entirely innocuous, unsystematic, and which gives no evidence whatever of interest in or influence of other evolutionary cosmologies: e.g.,» Evolution is the production of superior types out of inferior types» (MW 266; cf. 2evolution and emergence in more cosmological terms — but in a manner that is entirely innocuous, unsystematic, and which gives no evidence whatever of interest in or influence of other evolutionary cosmologies: e.g.,» Evolution is the production of superior types out of inferior types» (MW 266; cf. 267 - 69in more cosmological terms — but in a manner that is entirely innocuous, unsystematic, and which gives no evidence whatever of interest in or influence of other evolutionary cosmologies: e.g.,» Evolution is the production of superior types out of inferior types» (MW 266; cf. 267 - 69in a manner that is entirely innocuous, unsystematic, and which gives no evidence whatever of interest in or influence of other evolutionary cosmologies: e.g.,» Evolution is the production of superior types out of inferior types» (MW 266; cf. 267 - 69in or influence of other evolutionary cosmologies: e.g.,» Evolution is the production of superior types out of inferior types» (MW 266; cf. 2Evolution is the production of superior types out of inferior types» (MW 266; cf. 267 - 69).

All this makes possible, when combined with the resurrection of Christ, the emergence of a «transformed human community» which is «the next stage in the emergent evolution of the world, and the incarnation of the divine Word» (LG 74).

While the words «life» and «mind» refer to aspects of such great significance in the whole process that we might wish to attach special terms such as transcendence or emergence to them, we must recognize that the qualitative side of evolution, like the material side, is a continuum.

Lloyd Morgan (1933; cf. Wright 1935) treated the origin of mind in the course of evolution as a phenomenon of the same sort as the emergence of a new organ or physiological capacity.

It is certainly the case that any view of evolution which recognises the emergence of intelligence as a sort of destiny, written in the script of nature, is welcome.

If, as I maintain, the movement of the cosmos towards the highest degree of consciousness is not an optical illusion, but represents the essence of biological evolution, then, in the curve traced by Life, Man is unquestionably situated at the topmost point; and it is he, by his emergence and existence, who finally proves the reality and defines the trajectory — «the dot on the i»...

The papers in Part One, «The Evolution of Mind,» describes the mystery of the rise of self conscious, human, purposive action out of a flux in which it has been customary to find no grounds for such an emergence.

The intent of this paper is to present a conceptual model of a physical and biological universe in a state of constant change and evolution, based on three principal ideas: (a) neo-Aristotelian notions of reciprocal causality, (b) chaotic dynamics and contingencies of self - organizing systems, and (c) emergence of consciousness and sense of moral purpose in humans.

See Change: Rapid Emergence of New Sea Star Species Illustrates Evolution's Power Two Australian starfish species diverged only 6,000 years ago, offering a glimpse of evolutionary history in the making

«Classical determinism» in terms of the mechanical predictability of more sophisticated stages and properties of evolution from less sophisticated stages was clearly rejected in favour of holistic «emergence».

In this cosmology, allowing for the 800 - year development of vocabulary and knowledge, we can see openness to biological and cosmic evolution, complexity, emergence, matter as density - of - energy — all cherished by modern science — as well as metaphysics, finality and theology, which the Church seeks to uphold and defend: all of which, incidentally, your magazine seeks to bring together, too.

The emergence and hopefully continued evolution of Iwobi, Campbell and El Neny in my opinion could and probably should result in the parting of ways with Ox and Theo.

Volume XI, Number 1 Puberty as the Gateway to Freedom — Richard Landl Soul Hygiene and Longevity for Teachers — David Mitchell The Emergence of the Idea of Evolution in the Time of Goethe — Frank Teichmann The Seer and the Scientist: Jean Piaget and Rudolf Steiner on Children's Development — Stephen Keith Sagarin The Four Phases of Research — adapted from Dennis Klocek Reports from the Research Fellows Beyond Cognition: Children and Television Viewing — Eugene Schwartz PISA Study — Jon McAlice State Funds for Waldorf Schools in England — Douglas Gerwin On Looping — David Mitchell The Children's Food Bill — Christopher Clouder All Together Now!

Later, these molecules played important roles in the chemical evolution resulting in the emergence of life on the Earth.

A growing number of examples show that humans not only contribute to the extinction of species but also drive evolution, and in some cases the emergence of entirely new species.

He is a professor of anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley and an expert on the evolution of the brain; he is also interested in the chemical origins of life and the mathematics behind the emergence of complicated structures like language.

Findings from the study support a controversial theory proposed in the 1940s that the emergence of new body shapes in groups of species could result in a surge in their evolution.

Moreover, this study lays the foundation for future research into the role of repeats in the emergence and evolution of novel functions and life forms.

Having an overarching principle of life and evolution would give researchers a broader perspective on the emergence of structure and function in living things, many of the researchers said.

Emergence of the Middle Stone Age, a milestone in hominin evolution, occurred in Kenya by about 320,000 to 305,000 years ago.

Researchers examining the genes of different species of aphids and of their individual gut bacteria found that the emergence of new species of aphids during evolution was mirrored by speciation events in the insects» Buchnera symbionts.

Rather, they write in a paper published online in the Journal of Anatomy, it appears the chin's emergence in modern humans arose from simple geometry: As our faces became smaller in our evolution from archaic humans to today — in fact, our faces are roughly 15 percent shorter than Neanderthals» — the chin became a bony prominence, the adapted, pointy emblem at the bottom of our face.

In the course of evolution, mutual adaptations have resulted in the emergence of many species as well as in highly specialized flower - pollinator interactionIn the course of evolution, mutual adaptations have resulted in the emergence of many species as well as in highly specialized flower - pollinator interactionin the emergence of many species as well as in highly specialized flower - pollinator interactionin highly specialized flower - pollinator interactions.

In the humanized mouse model under the conditions studied here, partial loss of cxcr4 in human T cells due to treatment with X4 - ZFNs provided selective pressure for either the evolution or emergence of a pre-existing single amino acid mutation in the V3 loop of the infecting X4 HIV - 1 strain that enabled it to use CCR5 as efficiently as CXCRIn the humanized mouse model under the conditions studied here, partial loss of cxcr4 in human T cells due to treatment with X4 - ZFNs provided selective pressure for either the evolution or emergence of a pre-existing single amino acid mutation in the V3 loop of the infecting X4 HIV - 1 strain that enabled it to use CCR5 as efficiently as CXCRin human T cells due to treatment with X4 - ZFNs provided selective pressure for either the evolution or emergence of a pre-existing single amino acid mutation in the V3 loop of the infecting X4 HIV - 1 strain that enabled it to use CCR5 as efficiently as CXCRin the V3 loop of the infecting X4 HIV - 1 strain that enabled it to use CCR5 as efficiently as CXCR4.

«The insights provided by this study into some of the biggest questions in human evolution — cognitive evolution and its relationship to the emergence of language — would have been difficult, if not impossible to achieve without the kind of interdisciplinary approach to research that this project was grounded on.»

The results, reported May 8 in the journal Nature Human Behavior, place the appearance of human - like cognition at the emergence of Homo erectus, an early apelike species of human first found in Africa whose evolution predates Neanderthals by nearly 600,000 years.

In the most widely accepted model of human evolution today, the first emergence of hominins out of Africa involved Homo erectus, and happened some time after 2m years ago.

Using Niko Tinbergen's «four questions» as a guide, we will discuss the evolution of primates and emergence of the social function of the behavior (phylogeny), the development of the behavior during a individual's lifetime (ontogeny), the specific biological and chemical processes and motivations responsible for the behavior (mechanism), and how the behavior increase the fitness of individuals, allowing for its continual selection in primates (adaptive value).

But what role did these interactions play in the very emergence of life, in its Darwinian evolution and complexification?