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Biology
Thomas W. Scott, Geoff Wild
Summary: Social behaviours are typically modelled using neighbour-modulated fitness, but the interpretation is often unclear. This study presents a systematic methodology for constructing inclusive-fitness models, which focuses on individuals altering the fitness of neighbours. The approach is simpler and provides a clearer narrative of inclusive fitness compared to traditional neighbour-modulated fitness methodologies.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
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Religion
Michael Ruse
Summary: The author has been wrestling with the question of God's existence and how it reconciles with the theory of evolution throughout his life, eventually becoming a long-standing agnostic who approaches uncertainties with humility, finding great meaning in this modesty.
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Didier Auboeuf
Summary: Life emerged from the coupling between nucleic acid and protein synthesis, maintaining physicochemical parameter equilibria for proto-genomes, which evolved depending on biological activities in response to environmental fluctuations. Evolution depends on bidirectional relationship between genome and phenotype, with phenotype interacting with the environment to direct genome evolution.
PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
(2021)
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Ecology
Lutz Fromhage, Alasdair I. Houston
Summary: Neo-Darwinism sees biological adaptation as a one-sided process, while Niche Construction Theory highlights the mutual influence between organisms and their environments. Williams' asymmetry focuses on the directed modifications towards phenotypes that increase individual fitness.
Editorial Material
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Arran Gare
Summary: The conventional wisdom of the dominant group can hinder scientific progress, and the idea that scientific knowledge accumulates incrementally is being challenged. Denis Noble is challenging the neo-Darwinist orthodoxy in biology and exposing the distortions of science caused by the bucket theory.
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Business
Jameson Gill, Ilfryn Price
Summary: Memes are suggested as cultural equivalents to genes, but the variable operationalization of the concept has hindered the development of a coherent field of memetic management and organization studies. There is an unrecognized dilemma regarding the ontological status of memes, as it is unclear whether they represent a real cultural gene-like entity or a gene metaphor.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT REVIEWS
(2022)
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Philosophy
Mauro Senatore
Summary: This article proposes a reinterpretation of Derrida's critical re-elaboration of Heidegger's discourse on animality, which is shaped as a Nietzschean-type perspectivism.
RESEARCH IN PHENOMENOLOGY
(2021)
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Economics
Elvin Wyly
Summary: This paper delves into the 19th-century struggles over geography and human evolution, as well as the evolution of geographic thought under the influence of scientific and technological advancements and surveillance capitalism today. By integrating various theories, it suggests that humanity is presented with new challenges and opportunities to create new geographies of planetary evolution.
TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ECONOMISCHE EN SOCIALE GEOGRAFIE
(2021)
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Economics
Garrett Dash Nelson
Summary: This paper examines the term 'regional planning' in the 14th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1929) to highlight the importance of cultural criticism in early regional thinking. It shows that the concept of 'region' was used to reunite the fragmented life of modern industrialization, rather than serving as a new administrative object for the state.
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Education & Educational Research
Alexander Jakobidze-Gitman
Summary: Written by Tadeusz Zielinski, Our Debt to Antiquity (1903) is an attempt to combat the prejudice against classical education. Zielinski argues that Darwinian laws of selection manifest themselves in classical education in three aspects, and he defends classical education by applying these laws.
HISTORY OF EDUCATION
(2022)
Review
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Arthur Araujo
Summary: This paper draws a parallel between Rene Thom's topological program and Jakob von Uexkull's theory of meaning, suggesting that meaning incorporates spatial interaction between organisms and the environment.
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Sociology
Shanyang Zhao
Summary: This article explores the roles of natural selection and cultural selection in human societal evolution, proposing human self-selection as a new mechanism for human societal evolution. The transition from survival and reproductive success driven by genes and cultures before the Neolithic Revolution to prosperous living guided by cultural and potentially genetic self-selection after the Neolithic Revolution is discussed as a major shift in human societal evolution.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL THEORY
(2022)
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Piotr Mironowicz, Pawel Horodecki, Ryszard Horodecki
Summary: In this study, we investigate the non-perfect propagation of information in a low-dimensional environment and analyze the interplay between objectivization degree and environment parameters. The results show that the quality of the formed spectrum broadcast structure during interaction exhibits non-monotonicity with respect to the speed of environment dynamics and its mixedness. Furthermore, the external magnetic field and thermal noise are found to have effects on the dynamics and objectivity of the environment.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Diarmid A. Finnegan
Summary: James Croll believed that science was rooted in metaphysics, which could prove the First and Final Cause of all things. He insisted that every event must have a cause, and that the determination of a cause is distinct from its production. These beliefs stemmed from his strong religious commitments and Calvinist faith.
EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH
(2021)
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Economics
Naoise McDonagh
Summary: The state-backed bank bailouts policy has become a global response to systemic banking crises, despite many commentators viewing it as not optimal or desirable. The policy has been institutionalized in modern financial systems, and the author argues that its global diffusion over the past two centuries is an example of institutional evolution. Historical study of bank bailouts is important for gaining insight into the future evolution of systemic banking crises.
JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS
(2021)