He also thought that any traits that were improved through use could be passed down to offspring. A commonly used example is the giraffe. According to Lamarck’s theory of evolution, giraffes have long ...

Alessandro Minelli, University of Padova "Poiani has presented us with a veritable treasure trove of examples to demonstrate the expanding relevance of evolutionary theory. This work will undoubtedly ...

This project addresses core issues in evolutionary theory. Jonathan Birch works on the foundational concepts introduced in the 1960s by W. D. Hamilton that changed the way we think about how social ...

Tabaczek, Mariusz 2024. A Contemporary Aristotelian–Thomistic Perspective on the Evolutionary View of Reality and Theistic Evolution. Religions, Vol. 15, Issue. 5, p. 524. Natural selection, mutation, ...

“Social Darwinism”, for example, is one such “gross misreading ... By far the most controversial aspect of evolution theory was its apparent contradiction of the biblical account of ...

In his landmark 1942 book, Mayr proposed that Darwin's theory of natural selection could explain all of evolution, including why genes evolve at the molecular level. On the stubborn question of ...

Neutral theory claims that the overwhelming majority of evolutionary changes at the molecular level are not caused by selection acting on advantageous mutants, but by random fixation of ...

How does this example lead to cooperation in biological ... 1 Smith, J. M. Game theory and the evolution of behavior. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. B-Biol. Sci. 205, 475-488 (1979).

"And evolutionary theory is about how that information got ... favor both aggressive and non-aggressive behaviors. As an example, imagine that two populations, one of them aggressive (hawks ...

Students will be introduced to current theories of human evolution and topics of special interest including the evolution of cooperation and conflict; game theory; the origin of sex; and microbial ...

Although many people view Darwinian evolution as a valid explanation, others have begun questioning parts of this theory. For example, a growing number of prominent biologists are continually signing ...

For example, the basal segments of the antennae of extant adult Loricera species ... In 2014, in an article published in the ...