Natural Science Forum / Biology / Evolution / November 2006

Note: I really don't know what cellular automata is but this article
was easy reading. Can somebody explain in generalized "dummy" language
what CA is?
Modelling interacting cell systems in biology and medicine with

"Robert Karl Stonjek" rstonjek@bigpond.net.au wrote:-

Cognition and Biological Evolution
An Idealist Approach Resolves a Fundamental Paradox
By Axel Randrup arandrup@mobilixnet.dk
International Center for Interdisciplinary Psychiatric Research, CIRIP

Robert L. Carneiro's take on the evolution of culture
Submitted by Kambiz Kamrani on September 16, 2006 - 11:47am.
Some of you guys maybe interested in John Wilkins', of Evolving
Thoughts, review of Robert L. Carneiro's book "Evolutionism in Cultural

The Robertsonsian fusion that formed human chromosome number two (from
ancestral 2A and 2B, as it is preserved in the other apes) should have
caused a serious reproductive barrier, overcome only by consanguity of
the highest order; mating amongst first-degree relatives.  Any ...

Ethics of Genetic Engineering | Introduction
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In the mid-1970s, the public of the Western world was astonished to
learn that scientists had recently invented ways to move pieces of

Recently I have come across the following new provocative book:
FUTURE HUMAN EVOLUTION: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century
John Glad, Hermitage Publishers, 2006, ISBN 1-55779-154-6
(136 pages, bibliography, index) With Preface by Seymor Itzkoff.

A mathematician is out for a walk. He comes to a river and sees
A Neo Darwinist on the opposite bank working on his new gene centric model.
"Yoo-hoo!" he shouts, "How can I get to the other side?" The Neo Darwinist
looks up the river then down the river and shouts back, "You ARE on ...

I'm a student of biology at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow.
Currently I'm taking part in some research projects (sex ratios in blue
tits, sex determination in zebra finches...). But I'd like to do sth in
the field of computer simulations of evolutionary processes. Could you

Ernst Mach suggested that a theory should only be based on sensory
perceptions excluding metaphysical constructions. This excluded absolutes
such as absolute space or motion which must always remain constructs which
cannot be experienced empirically.  

ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Frankenstein in the Land of Dichter and Denker
Manfred D. Laubichler*
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Okay, I jumped the gun and rendered my opinion without necessarily
knowing everything about the so-called Baldwin Effect. I read the
Baldwin Effect is a longstanding evolutionary principle which says that
an advantageous behavior, once it has appeared in a population, will

"whitesickle@msn.com" whitesickle@msn.com wrote:-

John,
Reading back over your posts, I came across the following jewel you wrote
(between plus signs):
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I would greatly appreciate an advice, are there any particularly good
books on evolution and related topics, which are published by the
Springer Publishers and really deserve to be read?
Somehow I was invited to pick out complimentary books from the Springer