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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"neo-Darwinian"”.
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The Adaptive Function of Freudian Ambivalence, A Freudian Neo-Darwinian Synthesis
… ambivalence through evolutionary psychology, a neo-Darwinian sub-paradigm. This proposal posits that Freudian ambivalence is a grand-superordinate adaptive program composed of two integrated bivalent superordinate programs that in turn instigate adaptive behavior. The one and then the other …
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A Critique of the Rejection of Intelligent Design as a Scientific Hypothesis by Elliott Sober from His Book Evidence and Evolution
… likelihood approach. Sober claims that unlike neo-Darwinian processes, intelligent design cannot supply independent evidence to support the claim that it is a measurably likely cause responsible for the emergence of biological organisms and the structures or processes of which they are …
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The Nurture of Nature: Biology, Psychology and Culture
… a number of approaches to evolution, including neo-Darwinian evolutionary biology and evolutionary developmental biology. I argue that, to a greater or lesser extent, developmental processes have been misconstrued in these accounts and that the full role of development, from an evolutionary …
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Embryology and the evolutionary synthesis: Waddington, development and genetics
… of adaptive evolution. The unification of neo-Mendelian heredity and neo-Darwinian selection theory, is descnbed as the core of modern synthetic neo-Darwinism as it emerged in 1930s mathematical population genetics. As selectionism strengthened within synthetic neo-Darwinism, embryological …
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People, Places, and Plants: An Appraisal of Subsistence, Technology and Sedentism in the Eastern Woodlands
… Model of Technological Investment, grounded in neo-Darwinian theory and Human Behavioral Ecology, this study uses quantitative and qualitative archaeological data to 1. Provide a general survey of the changes in human botanical diet from the Hocking Valley, Ohio, for the Late Archaic through …
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A philosophical, scientific, and theological analysis of the problem of creaturely suffering: towards a new perception of God and pain
The processes of Neo-Darwinian evolution have been used to argue against the existence of the loving God portrayed in the Judeo-Christian Bible. Philosopher William Rowe presents this as the Evidential Problem of Natural Evil which claims 1) that there is unnecessary widespread suffering in nature, …
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Adaptive scaling of evolvable systems
Neo-Darwinian evolution is an established natural inspiration for computational optimisation with a diverse range of forms. A particular feature of models such as Genetic Algorithms (GA) [18, 12] is the incremental combination of partial solutions distributed within a population of solutions. This …