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Pages Tagged with EvolutionAdaptation Definition
**Adaptation** is a reversible process. Appearance and/or function are changed in respons to environmental changes. The aim is to improve survival, or (more generally spoken) function. If the process of …
Tags: Core theory Evolution Theory Categories: Evolutionary Biology Aggregate FauceirSynonyms: Master Fauceir
An aggregate, also known as master, fauceir contains element (slave) fauceirs to exploit. In fact, every fauceir is an aggregate fauceir with each of its elements being aggregate fauceirs as …
Tags: Evolution Categories: Allopatry
**Allopatry** is an ecological and biogeological term that signifies that groups of organisms live in separate not overlapping geographical areas. For instance, two populations of the same species living on …
Tags: Biogeology Ecology Evolution Categories: Analogy Phenomenon
In classical evolutionary theory analogous organs serve the same function but arose from a different evolutionary origin. In Fauceir Theory analogous fauceirs are defined accordingly. == Rational == For evolution …
Tags: Anatomy Behavior Evolution Phenomena Categories: Artificial Selection
Artificial selection as opposed to natural selection is a method used by breeders to allow only desired members of a species to reproduce.
Tags: Evolution Categories: Cognition
In fauceir terms **Cognition** is a psychological fauceir that links human perception to rational behavior. Needless to say that cognition as a fauceir has a whole bunch (in fact an …
Tags: Anthropology Cladistics Cognitive function Evolution Psychology Categories: Psychology Collapsed Anthill
Last summer I observed a bustling ant colony with an impressive anthill. This year at this place I found a hole filled with soft debris. The colony was gone, and …
Computer memory hierarchy
Evolutionary progress can be illustrated with computer memory. The computer memory is represented by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-access_memory|Random-access memory modules]]. These chips turn into useful hierarchically controlled memory once the computer is turned …
Categories: Software Cope's ruleSynonyms: Cope-Depéret rule
Cope's rule is the [[../GrowthRule|Size Rule]] applied to biological objects. It was first observed in the fossile record <>. Although named after Cope, he never actually stated that rule. …
Categories: Biology C-Value
The **C-value** is the amount of haploid DNA.
Categories: Evolutionary Biology Darwinian controlSynonyms: Selectional control; Evolutionary control
**Darwinian control** is a special case of fauceir control characterized by statistically defined outcome and an also statistical feedback that is carried out by inheritance. Darwinian control takes place mostly …
Tags: Control Core theory Evolution Theory Categories: Evolutionary Biology Philosophy Decontextualization Rule
The **decontextualization rule of evolution** states that while evolution advances regulatory units are driven apart by accumulation of intercalated processes. <
Tags: Decontextualization Evolution Rules Categories: Fauceir Theory Devolution DefinitionSynonyms: Backward Evolution
**[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devolution_%28biology%29|Devolution]]** describes the oposite of [[../EvolutionDefinition|evolution]] a process that leads to decreased complexity and adaptability. This process is typical of organisms that live in social compounds either with individuals of …
Tags: Core theory Evolution Theory Categories: Evolutionary Biology Element FauceirSynonyms: Slave Fauceir
**Element fauceirs** are the building blocks of an aggregate fauceir. The set of element fauceirs that belong to an aggregate fauceir define its structure, function, and behavior. The terms master …
Tags: Core theory Evolution Theory Categories: Evolutionary Biology EndosymbiogenesisSynonyms: Symbiogenesis
**Endosymbiogenesis** describes evolution as an accumulation of symbiotic mergers. The theory was initiated by [[../KonstantinMereschkowski|Mereschkowski]] who correctly assumed that chloroblasts derive from Cyanobacteria and added by [[../IvanEmanuelWallin|Wallin]] who came up …
Categories: Epigenetic landscape
**Epigenetic landscape** is a model introduced by [[../ConradHalWaddington|Conrad Hal Waddington]] that tries to explain the development into different directions depending on environmental or epigenetic factors. The model is a 3D …
Tags: Control EvoDevo Evolution Genetics Categories: Biology Mathematics Evolutionary Distance
**Evolutionary Distance** is the difference in evolutionary levels. Evolutionary levels can only be measured if evolutionary progress is assumed, so the determination of evolutionary distance requires measurement of evolutionary progress. …
Categories: Evolution Definition
**Evolution** is an automatic process in nature that improves adaptability and concomitantly leads to increasing complexity. This definition significantly differs from the one presently used in evolutionary biology, which is …
Tags: Core theory Evolution Theory Categories: Evolutionary Biology Philosophy Demographic controlSynonyms: Demographic regulation
Demographic control is a fauceir that evolved with the advent of societies. It is a byproduct of social evolution. One of many social fauciers that are essential for society's persistence. …
Tags: Anthropology Behavior Control Evolution Imprecision Theory Categories: Sociology Evolution of a societies life cycleSynonyms: History
The evolution of societies life cycles is tightly connected with human history. In fact human history is the collection of various accounts of human societies rise and fall. As a …
Tags: Anthropology Evolution Sociology Theory Categories: Psychology Sociology Progress in evolutionSynonyms: Evolutionary progress; Evolution progress
**Evolutionary progress** describes magnitude and direction of evolution. Progress is measurable by level and pace. There is progress in evolution which is obvious to everyone who compares the simplicity of …
Tags: Core theory Evolution Theory Categories: Biology Evolutionary Biology Evolvability
**Evolvability** describes the ability to evolve. There is lot of confusion about the definition which are rooted in two main unanswered questions. # Which unit is considered to evolve? # …
Categories: Fauceir deathSynonyms: Death of a fauceir
A fauceir's death is the end point of its life cycle. When death occurs not all the sub-fauceirs die too. On the contrary some of them may even flourish. Instead, …
Categories: Evolutionary Biology Fauceir's essential propertiesSynonyms: Essential properties of fauceirs
This article is about the essential properties of a fauceir. Essential are thos properties that define the whole class. In this case, the essential properties of fauceirs are faund in …
Tags: Adaptation Behavior Evolution Theory Categories: Evolutionary Biology Linguistic construct: "For my part, I ..."
From time to time, when I can afford the time to learn, to improve my English, I browse a little [[http://www.amazon.de/Discussing-English-Englisch-deutsche-Diskussionswendungen-Anwendungsbeispielen/dp/3150197155/|booklet]] called "Discussing in English". It lists phrases often used …
Tags: Evolution Learning Linguistic Categories: Genetic AccomodationSynonyms: Accomodation, Genetic
**Genetic accommodation** is a concept of evolution introduced by Mary Jane West-Eberhard[1,2]. According to Braendle and Flatt[3], genetic accommodation is a generalization of the concept of [[../GeneticAssimilation|genetic assimilation]]. Although I …
Tags: Evolution Genetics Theory Categories: Genetic AssimilationSynonyms: Assimilation, Genetic
**Genetic Assimilation** is an evolutionary concept developed by [[../ConradHalWaddington|Conrad Hal Waddington]]. It is explains with Darwinian principles how acquired characters become inheritable. Probably because of his leftist political views his …
Tags: Evolution Genetics Theory Categories: Genetic DriftSynonyms: Genetic Sampling; Allelic Drift; Sewall Wright Effect
**Genetic drift** is the time dependent change of the allele frequency in a population due to random sampling.
Categories: Hayek On Cultural Evolution
How [[../FriedrichAugustvonHayek|F.A.v. Hayek]] described social evolution is shown in this video. <
Tags: Anthropology Control Evolution Sociology Theory Categories: Sociology Hierarchy Of Social RulesSynonyms: History of Social Rules, Social Rules
**Social Rules** are slave fauceirs of social groups specifically designed to keep control of group member's behavior. The hierarchy proposed on this page is based on evolutionary distance. Three groups …
Tags: Anthropology Behavior Cladistics Evolution Psychology Categories: Psychology Sociology Homology Phenomenon
== Etymology== The term homology in evolutionary theory derives from the detection of homologous organs. Such organs in closely related species (taxa) share a common ancestor and therefore posses a …
Tags: Anatomy Evolution Phenomena Categories: Independent evolution research
Marx' discovery that //being determines consciousness// holds true for evolutionary theory too. His famous quote is found here ([[http://www.mlwerke.de/me/me13/me13_007.htm|Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels - Werke, (Karl) Dietz Verlag, Berlin. Band 13, 7. …
Categories: Philosophy Independent researchers into evolution
Our thinking is limited by ideology. Ideology is made to subconsciously influence ideas. That, of course, holds true for whole frameworks of ideas, theories. Evolutionary theory makes no exception. Since …
Tags: Evolution Ideology System Theory Categories: Philosophy Psychology Sociology Inequality Model
As on this page the fauceir model of inequality is described, inequality is a treated as a fauceir that evolved 10,000-60,000 years ago. Inequality evolved because societies that exhibited inequality …
Tags: Anthropology Behavior Economy Evolution Society System Theory Categories: Economics Sociology Insulation RuleSynonyms: Rule of Progressive Blinding; Rule of Progressive Inertness
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> The process of evolutionary progress is characterized by an increased level of insulation. < > == Rational Proof # Each fauceir consists of an infinite number of element fauceirs. …
Categories: Philosophy Systems Theory Levels of Fauceir ChangeSynonyms: Types of Fauceir Change
Three levels of change in fauceirs can be distinguished. # Mutation. # Adaptation. # Evolution. In any given fauceir the possibilities of mutations are abundant. Many of these are deleterious. …
Categories: LevtenceSynonyms: Levtent, levtently
**Levtent** is an adjective that describes a fauceir that is reluctant to evolve and rather evades all control mechanisms that would force it to improve adaption. Levtent fauceirs are rather …
Tags: Behavior Cognitive function Evolution Linguistic Categories: Philosophy Liberty Rule of Evolution
Admittedly, to call this **Liberty Rule** is kind of anthropocentristic, so the name is chosen for rather historical reasons and for didactic purposes. During revolutions the call for freedom was …
Categories: Mary Jane West-EberhardSynonyms: West-Eberhard, Mary Jane
**Mary Jane West-Eberhard** is a theoretical biologist. She is author of the book //"Developmental plasticity and evolution"// in which she tackles the problem developmental adaptation to environmental conditions [1]. The …
Categories: Mass Extinction
**Mass extiction** is significant decline of a certain group of fauceirs over a relatively short period of time. Mass extinction has to be distinguished from normal death rates in connection …
Categories: Micro-macro relationships
In science when we often encounter processes of thought in which micro and macro relationships are distinguished and analyzed separately. Micro- and macroevolution as well as micro- and macroeconomics may …
Tags: Economy Evolution Theory Categories: Modularity
Modularity is a concept introduced by Mary Jane West-Eberhard[1]. She correctly sensed patterns in evolution. All her patterns however stick to the old concept of morphological presentations. This point is …
Tags: Evolution Categories: Natural Selection
In evolutionary theory natural selection is the only way to proceed adaptional changes. In fauceir theory natural selection is only one way to excert genetic adaptational control. It is the …
Tags: Evolution Categories: Neutral EvolutionSynonyms: Neutral Changes
**Neutral evolution** is a concept of evolution that considers changes to the genomic DNA as result of stochastical processes by contrast to adaptation, the usual concept. == History == The …
Tags: Evolution Genetics Theory Categories: Niche Construction
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> Niche Construction is an evolutionary process by which for a limited space and time an insulated evolutionary process exists. < > == Discussion This definition can only be understood …
Categories: Philosophy Systems Theory Niche Construction - Its Frightening Implications
**Niche construction** is neatly outlined in a book <>. In its preface the authors claim: <
> As our investigation proceeded, it appeared the ramifications of niche construction grew to … Tags: Evolution Ideology Theory Categories: Biology Sociology Systems Theory Parapatry
**Parapatry** is a term from ecology or biogeography that describes the relationship between groups of organisms whose ranges are adjacent but not significantly overlapping. Two plant species are **parapatric** if …
Tags: Biogeology Ecology Evolution Categories: Patricity
**Patricity** is a newly created term that describes the degree by which the ranges of two sets of organisms overlap. Patricity embraces the terms allopatry, peripatry, parapatry, and sympatry that …
Tags: Biogeology Ecology Evolution Categories: Peripatry
**Peripatry** is a term from ecology and biogeography that describes the relationship between groups of organisms whose ranges are adjacent but not overlapping. For instance, two plants are **peripatric** if …
Tags: Biogeology Ecology Evolution Categories: Phenotypic Plasticity
By phenotypic plasticity we understand the range of variation a phenotype can asume at a given genotype. Phenotypic plasticity embraces phenotypic changes that are influenced by environmental factors not by …
Categories: Reply to David Sloan Wilson's Post at Social Evolution Forum
This reply is to [[http://socialevolutionforum.com/2012/10/02/david-sloan-wilson-human-cultures-are-primarily-adaptive-at-the-group-level|David Sloan Wilson's blog entry //'Human Cultures are Primarily Adaptive at the Group Level'//]]. Below I will make remarks to some quotes from the text. The …
Tags: Adaptation Anthropology Core theory Evolution Ideology Society Theory Categories: Evolutionary Biology Sociology Reproductive IsolationSynonyms: Isolation, reproductive
**Reproductive isolation** is a term from classical evolutionary theory that describes groups of organisms within a population that show group specific mating preferences, so so individuals more likely find a …
Categories: Revolution
We call **revolution** a fundamental evolutionary novelty in any kind of social evolution processes.
Tags: Evolution Sociology Theory Categories: Rule of Dwindling Importance
The **rule of dwindling mutual importance with increasing evolutionary distance** states that the greater the evolutionary distance between master and slave fauceirs the more negligible its mutual impact. == Rational …
Tags: Control Decontextualization Evolution Rules Theory Categories: Fauceir Theory Selection of Polygenetic TraitsSynonyms: Polygenetic Selection
Polygenetic selection describes the changes in a gene pool in response to adaptation of a polygenetic trait. == Prerequisite == Let us assume we consider a polygenetic trait that is …
Categories: Evolutionary SociologySynonyms: Social Evolution; Social Darwinism
== Definition == Social evolution is the [[../EvolutionDefinition|evolution]] of social fauceirs. Social evolution is not different from history. In fact social evolution includes history. History is studying social evolution in …
Tags: Evolution Society Theory Categories: Psychology Sociology Story Of Enslavement
**The Story of Your Enslavement** is the title of an YouTube video. <
Categories: Sympatry
**Sympatry**, is a term from ecology and biogeography that constitutes the same or significantly overlapping distributions of different sets of organisms. We call two species **sympatric** if they inhabit the …
Tags: Biogeology Ecology Evolution Categories: Symsagittifera roscoffensis
Teased by Lynn Margulis' book //Symbiotic Planet//<>, I visited [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoff|Roscoff]] this summer to see the the flatworm //Symsagittifera roscoffensis//, formerly //Convoluta roscoffensis// and take some photos and videos. …
Tags: Evolution Categories: Biology TransposonsSynonyms: Transposable Elements; Mobile DNA; Selfish DNA; Junk DNA; Jumping Genes
== Definition == **Transposons** are DNA fragments that are capable of moving from one place to an other of a cells genome. == Frequency == The frequency of transposable elements …
Tags: Cell DNA EvoDevo Evolution Genetics Categories: Vordenker - MastermindSynonyms: Mastermind - Vordenker
I'm a great admirer of the English language. While learning it, I always detect new words and expressions. That is new words not in the sense I have not known …
Tags: Evolution Linguistic Theory Categories: Waddington Experiment
[[../ConradHalWaddington|Conrad Hal Waddington]] performed several experiments to provide evidence in support of [[../GeneticAssimilation|genetic assimilation]], a Darwinian concept to explain inheritance of acquired characters. The one described by Jonathan M W …
Tags: Evolution Categories: Wallace EffectSynonyms: Reinforcement
**Wallace Effect** is a honorific term that relates reinforcement to [[../AlfredRusselWallace|Alfred Russel Wallace]], the co-inventor—if not the original creator himself—of the theory of evolution by natural selection. The concept of …
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