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The Biological Evolution of Consciousness
2018This 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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Social and Biological Evolution
Journal of the Operational Research Society, 1984Evolution poses some very special problems in scientific methodology. This paper offers a new approach to these problems, based on a model which was born in the management sciences, but which applies to the evolution of social and biological systems alike. Details of the model are presented and its methodological implications are discussed.
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A Unifying Theory of Biological Evolution
2018This chapter is an extract of the model on biological evolution reported in the book [Brender McNair, 2016a]. The focus here is on presenting the Mereon-related aspects of the outcome rather than the book’s details of a variety of theories on biological evolution, from Darwin and Lamarck till today.
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The Biological Conceptions of Evolution
1974In biology the notion of evolution (1) means that the different forms of life actually have a structure and a position in nature which are due to a development from other forms. This development generally is called phylogenetic because it concerns the development of species, or phylogeny; in biology the notion of evolution is not related to ontogeny ...
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Evolution ofbiopolymers and biological evolution [PDF]
Uspekhi Fizicheskih Nauk, 1986 openaire +1 more source