terça-feira, 15 de setembro de 2015

The Baldwin Effect and Its Significance:

The Baldwin Effect and Its Significance: A Review of Bruce Weber and David Depew (eds) Evolution and Learning: The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered; MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass 2003, pp x, 341.
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/hppi/about/staff/publications/baldwin.pdf

quinta-feira, 2 de julho de 2015

The Purpose of Purpose - Richard Dawkins

The Purpose of Purpose - Richard Dawkins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT4EWCRfdUg

During Richard Dawkins' American tour in March 2009, he gave a talk titled "The Purpose of Purpose". I travelled with Richard to these cities and filmed the talks, which I've edited together here. The content of the talk remains intact, while the editing moves between the different locations and Richard's Keynote presentation.

Produced by The Richard Dawkins Foundation and R. Elisabeth Cornwell

Filmed and edited by Josh Timonen

See more about Richard Dawkins' upcoming book "The Greatest Show on Earth" here:
http://richarddawkins.net/thegreatest...

This talk was given in Michigan, Minneapolis, Oklahoma and Nebraska.

Filmed at:
University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, Minnesota
University of Oklahoma - Norman, Oklahoma
Holland Performing Arts Center - Omaha, Nebraska

Introductions by:
PZ Myers - Minneapolis, Minnesota
Barry Weaver - Norman, Oklahoma
Richard Holland - Omaha, Nebraska

Filmed and Edited by Josh Timonen
Shot on Red One #4809

quinta-feira, 21 de maio de 2015

CARTA: Culture-Gene Interactions: Peter Richerson-Culture-led Gene-culture Coevolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GonV1ER8Ubo

CARTA: Culture-Gene Interactions: Peter Richerson-Culture-led Gene-culture Coevolution

(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) In the classic nature-nurture dichotomy, nature has a stronger or weaker influence on nurture, but certainly nurture was supposed to have no impact on nature. Human culture is often taken to be a form of nurture. However, culture itself has evolutionary properties. In particular, culture generates novel environments that in turn select for novel genes. A few dramatic cases of this effect are well known and many more are suspected. Peter Richerson, UC Davis, explains why the nature-nurture dichotomy is an impediment to clear thinking and should be abandoned. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 24108]