Evolution and the Theory of Games

of microbial life as significant but rather minuscule. This notion of anthropocentrism is considered, then, to be invalid. While it may not be fully understood by us as to why, bacterial life is the origins of life and this idea is supported by evolution. Moreover, bacterial life, if destroyed from all of Earth, then life would cease to exist, whereas if bacterial life were…

The Evolution of Cooperation, Robert Axelrod Background information about the author and the book Robert Axelrod is an American political scientist currently teaching Public Policies and Political Sciences at the University of Michigan, where he is the Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding. After graduating in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, he studied at Yale University, where he obtained a MBA and a PhD in Political Science. Axelrod has received countless awards…

Our entire life is made up of different strategies. Some people tend to be more aggressive while others tend to be more timid. Why is this? According to Von Neumann and his modern version of Game Theory, games are assumed to have rational strategies. This is exactly what we see in the game we call life. In this lab, we are studying two different strategies. This is also sort of a tweak on the Prisoners Dilemma. Instead of having two criminals using strategies to try to get a lower sentence, we…

A. Overview David M. Buss, a much-admired psychological researcher, has analyzed how the human mind has adapted to homicide and how behavioral evolution has altered how humans perceive and react to the act of homicide. He does this by conducting his own national research survey on modern-day people’s thoughts on murder and questions if they have ever considered killing another person before, and if so, why and under what circumstances. He investigates how homicides have changed over the decades,…

Behaviour”. He is best known for his work on social theory based on natural selection, which includes deception and self-deception. His influences are specially from Charles Darwin and Hamilton. Trivers also proposed the following theories: reciprocal altruism, parental investment, facultative sex ratio determination and parent-offspring conflict, and I will explain some of them down below. Natural selection is considered a phenomenon of evolution that is defined as the differential reproduction…

Recounted in Wootton’s edition of “Modern Political Thought” (2008), Hobbes’ “Leviathan” makes an argument for statehood premised in the social contract theory. In his examination of people (or “men”, as he solely refers to), Hobbes formulates the conflict that derives from the intrinsic “nature of man” (Wootton, 2008, p. 158). Primarily, Hobbes argues that there are three principal sources of conflict in the state of nature: competition, diffidence, and glory. As a result of these conditions,…

2014. Action video game play facilitates the development of better perceptual templates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111:16961-16966. Adam O, Michael P. 2015. Enhancing perceptual and attentional skills requires common demands between the action video games and transfer tasks. Frontiers in Psychology 6: 113. Kühn S, Gleich T, Lorenz C, Lindenberger U. Gallinat…

In the video it mentioned about Darwin’s theory applies after the first cell. It also shows that the probability in the game of life is so low to accept theory of evolution. I am amazed that there is a wall and pre-assumption in the academic world to reject intelligent design. I suppose scientists are opened to different possible explanations of the scenario…

The Darwinian theory doesn’t give an explanation for complexity of precisely tailored parts of cilia and flagella. Biochemists have shown the blood clotting is very complex and consists of interdependent protein parts. These irreducibly complex systems would be neutralized…

In Cherry Lewis’s "The Dating Game", she analyzes the autobiography of Arthur Holmes, the English geologist known for his advancements in radioactive dating and theories on the Earth and how it has aged. To put it into perspective, the book tracks how ideas vary vastly over one man’s day. Arthur Holmes was an influential pioneer in the findings and research of his theory in the mid 1800's, so Kelly depicts his views as time has passed. Through the use of literary analysis, autobiographies, and…