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Punctuated equilibrium and shock waves in molecular models of biological evolution.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 2014
We consider the dynamics in infinite population evolution models with a general symmetric fitness landscape. We find shock waves, i.e., discontinuous transitions in the mean fitness, in evolution dynamics even with smooth fitness landscapes, which means ...
D. Saakian, Makar Ghazaryan, Chin-Kun Hu
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Copper and the biological evolution

Biosystems, 1983
Copper is contained in a number of enzymes and proteins. A remarkable feature is that except for the electron-carrying blue copper proteins (azurin and plastocyanin) and copper-containing cytochrome c oxidase found in some cyanobacteria and some aerobic bacteria, all copper enzymes and proteins are found only in eukaryotes.
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Consciousness and Biological Evolution

Journal of Theoretical Biology, 1997
It has been suggested that if the preservation and development of consciousness in the biological evolution is a result of natural selection, it is plausible that consciousness not only has been influenced by neural processes, but has had a survival value itself; and it could only have had this, if it had also been efficacious.
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The essence of biological evolution

Uspekhi Fizicheskih Nauk, 1983
The current state of the theory of biological evolution is reviewed. Evolution is compared with the cosmological processes of structure formation. Both occur in dissipative systems and are governed by export of entropy. The objections to Darwin's theory are discussed and rejected.
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Human evolution is biological & technological evolution

Biosystems, 2020
We are the human & machine species. The homo is just the inner part. The evolution of the human & machine species is oriented in time from the naked man to the man with progressively more powerful add-ons (artifacts, contrivances, devices, machines, science).
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Biological Evolution

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory, 2021
Josephine C. Adams, Jürgen Engel
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Transforming Misconceptions: Using Transformative Experience to Promote Positive Affect and Conceptual Change in Students Learning about Biological Evolution.

, 2013
Teaching and learning about complex scientific content, such as biological evolution, is challenging in part because students have a difficult time seeing the relevance of evolution in their everyday lives.
Benjamin C. Heddy, G. Sinatra
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The evolution of biological macromolecules

Contemporary Physics, 1984
Abstract The red colour of blood has excited the emotions and interest of man since the earliest records of history, yet never has the most imaginative of the literati conjured up a proposal that this incarnadine hue could reveal a story of the evolution of all animals, going back hundreds of millions of years to a common ancestor (Thomas H.
J. E. Lydon, A.C. Tnorth
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Understanding Biological Evolution Through Computational Thinking

Science Education, 2020
Dana Christensen, D. Lombardi
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The Biological Evolution of Consciousness

2018
This chapter is about how consciousness might have evolved, and why. It discusses phenomenal consciousness—the ways subjective experiences feel. The chapter points out that there are several ways that a biological trait such as phenomenal consciousness might have arisen during evolution: it might have been selected for because it performs an adaptive ...
Corey J. Maley, Gualtiero Piccinini
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