Evolution of Productive Efficiency by Arthur Brock on Prezi. The Evolutionary Manifesto. ECCO People. ECCO, the Evolution, Complexity and COgnition group, is an interdisciplinary research center affiliated with the Center Leo Apostel and the Global Brain Institute at the (Dutch-speaking) Free University of Brussels (VUB).
Address: ECCO, Center Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Krijgskundestraat 33, B-1160 Brussels, Belgium (This is just outside the main VUB campus, see map and directions; entrance to the Center: see photo on the right) phone: +32-2-640 67 37 fax: +32-2-644 07 44 e-mail: secrecco at vub.ac.be (replace " at " by "@") website: Members The following lists the present members with their focus of research. Director Prof. Core members Evo Busseniers: mathematical models of self-organization and hierarchy in networks and societyJon Echanove: leadership and human experience in complex, uncertain environmentsDr.
Affiliated members Students Former members Dr. Collaboration with other groups. Human Culture Plays a Role in Natural Selection. Noodle V: Geography 3.0, What It Is and What It Means. The Great Story Timeline of the Epic of Evolution. Cooperation and Experimental Evolution : Oscillator. Cooperation and altruism are widespread in biology, from molecules and genes working together in a cell, to bacterial communities that require coordinated behavior to survive in a tough environment, to human relationships and societies.
Our human cultural perspective (perhaps even more specifically our American cultural perspective, focused as it is on individuality, free markets, and the American Dream), however, treats cooperation as an outright anomaly that has to be explained away by science (or often, religion). If natural selection is about the “survival of the fittest” how can a selfless gene be rewarded evolutionarily, surviving to the next generation? If evolution is about individuals locked in a battle for resources, why would anyone share with a friend? Many experiments have shown that cooperation may actually not be so anomalous, and in fact may be a driving force for evolutionary change and diversity.
Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) The creation of evolution. Why is Charles Darwin 11 commonly held up as the father of the theory of evolution?
Ben Valsler spoke to Darwin biographer Jim Moore, and he began by asking him what drove Darwin to formulate the concept of evolution in the face of what was, initially, profound religious and political hostility to his ideas. Jim Moore: Darwin was driven by different things at different times, just like all of us. He was complex; he changed; he became more conservative generally speaking as he got older, but if you mean what drove Darwin to become an evolutionist, one has to say it has to be something as powerful as the forces that were ranged against evolutionists.
When Darwin is less than 30 years old, he comes back from travelling around the world – most of it was on land, not at sea – but he gets home, and within weeks, probably a few months, he’s become an evolutionist. 12 as the father and mother of humankind. Copyrighted image Credit: Used with permission Charles Darwin. Darwin is cuddly. Stardust Rituals for the Creation of Elements. ♦ Click here for more EXUBERANT, PLAYFUL Stardust Rituals appropriate for adults or kids. ♦ Click here for detailed guidance that Connie uses in instructing KIDS on stardust, culminating in a "cosmic communion" glitter ritual. ♦ Click here to learn how to celebrate BIRTHDAY and ANNIVERSARY STARS, a fun and moving exercise for adults as well as kids. ♦ Click here for an 8-part STARDUST PRELUDE that can be used before a ritual or to dramatically accompany a lesson, workshop, or sermon on the stardust theme. ♦ Click here for instructions for celebrating a WINTER SOLSTICE STARDUST PROGRAM (based on an actual program we brought to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Clemson, SC, for Sunday morning service on December 21, 2003). ♦ Click here for "The Star Within: An Ash Wednesday Service", which is everything you need for duplicating in your church the Ash Wednesday service conducted in 2004 at Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis.
