10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ADAPTEDNESS»
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adaptedness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
adaptedness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Concepts and Methods in Evolutionary Biology
aggregate of the individuals' adaptedness values. The probability of such a group
producing n propagule groups given the "adaptedness" value of the group and
the adaptedness values of each of the members of the group does equal the ...
2
Foundations of Biophilosophy
Another reason for distinguishing adaptedness from fitness is that not all adapted
organisms are at the same time reproductively fit (see Sect. 4.2). That is, even
well-adapted organisms may have zero (replicative) fitness, as is the case of ...
Martin Mahner, Mario Bunge, 1997
3
Adaptation in Plant Breeding
Universidad de Leon, Area de Genetica, 24071 Leon, Spain Key words:
adaptedness, climate, soil, isozymes Summary Genetic adaptation implies the
shaping of population and species gene pools in response to environmental
challenges.
4
Natural Selection in the Wild
Adaptedness has also been defined as the mean absolute fitness (Sober 1984).
There are some especially difficult problems in calculating absolute fitness when
there are overlapping generations, when there is strong density-dependent ...
5
Adaptation and Fitness in Animal Populations: Evolutionary ...
Thus for population (breed) comparisons of adaptedness, the example given
above for (phenotypic) fitness is simply extended to a count of the number of
newborn in each population in the next generation. One should note, however,
that this ...
Julius Van der Werf, 2008
6
Reasoning Across Domains: An Essay in Evolutionary Psychology
Such problems are known in the literature as adaptive problems, and a complete
listing of all the adaptive problems a particular species faces during its evolution
constitutes the species' environment of evolutionary adaptedness. There are ...
7
Not by Design: Retiring Darwin's Watchmaker
ADAPTATION VERSUS ADAPTEDNESS To begin with, I must make a distinction
made many times before, the distinction between adaptation as a process and
adaptation as a state of being, or adaptedness (Bock and von Wahlert 1965; ...
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The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies
10. Who. Lived. in. the. Environment. of. Evolutionary. Adaptedness? JOAN. B.
SILK. There can be no doubt that the difference between the mind of the lowest
man and that of the highest animal is immense. An anthropomorphous ape, if he
...
Steven W. Gangestad, Jeffry A. Simpson, 2007
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Philosophy of Biology: An Anthology
But natural selection, rather than personal or collective taste, must be the ultimate
criterion against which we test our explication of adaptedness.10 If we define
natural selection in terms of relative adaptedness (as we will, see below p.
Alex Rosenberg, Robert Arp, 2009
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The Adaptive Seascape: The Mechanism of Evolution
Adaptation in the preceding sense, that of being adapted to a give environment,
has been called "adaptedness" by Dobzhansky (1968 and is the product of
evolution. He reserved the word "adaptation for the evolutionary process by
which an ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ADAPTEDNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
adaptedness is used in the context of the following news items.
Review: GCell Solar Powered Keyboard Folio for iPad Air 2
One other level of adaptedness from this case is that the keyboard is detachable, as shown below. GCell iPad case with keyboard removed. «TechnologyTell, Feb 15»
Artificial Intelligence Is A Design Problem
... and its physical environment is the most familiar: in this case we are used to describing the fit between the two as well-adaptedness. … «h+ Magazine, Jan 15»
Strange Situations: Attachment Theory and Sexual Assault on …
In what he termed “the environment of evolutionary adaptedness,” the helpless child was threatened by predators and required the constant ... «Pacific Standard, Aug 14»
How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think
... where our species sprouted from in its "environment of evolutionary adaptedness" (known as the EEA in evolutionary-psychology circles). «Metapsychology, Apr 14»
Breastfeeding, Infant Sleep And How Babies Are Defying An …
"Identification of the 'environment of evolutionary adaptedness' with the optimal environment for wellbeing conflates questions of fitness and ... «Science 2.0, Apr 14»
Tackling Pinker's defense of evolutionary psychology
They talk of a Savannah Mind or they generalize it to the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness. It's another reification of the unknown. «ScienceBlogs, Jul 13»
More on "Complexity by Subtraction": You Think They're Kidding …
... "pure" sense (McShea and Brandon, 2010), uncontaminated with any consideration of the degree of adaptedness, sophistication, or function. «Discovery Institute, Apr 13»
5 Ways to Make Progress in Evolutionary Psychology: Smash, Not …
In any case, many of the things we do today are things we did not do in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness – itself a mythical ... «Scientific American, Feb 13»
Where My Conflict with Jay Richards Really Lies
The theory of evolution by natural selection explains the adaptedness and diversity of the world solely materialistically." Jay then adds "If ... «Discovery Institute, Apr 12»
So Where Does the Conflict (with Alvin Plantinga) Really Lie?
The theory of evolution by natural selection explains the adaptedness and diversity of the world solely materialistically." If Plantinga is right in ... «Discovery Institute, Apr 12»
