Evolutionary robotics

Topic Eight Reflection Paper- Alicia Turnquist Throughout the years there have been many theories that scientists and people have created. They can deal with anything from people, the world, or even food. These theories are later proven to be true or can be proven wrong Charles Darwin came up with the theory of natural selection. This gives an explanation of evolution, and how plants and animals have adapted to survive. He believed that everything happens for a reason and that one…

Your Inner Fish: Arms Deep in Evolutionary Change Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin is the closest thing humanity has to prove The Theory of Evolution. Creationists’ have yet to accept fact, but that’s for another essay. Although this book is a specific collection of evidence, this wasn’t the first time the idea of creationism was challenged. This book is one, rather simple, explanation of what our lives truly are: a product of millions of years of evolutionary change. As Shubin states in his…

Standardizing the Colors of Birds: Ridgway’s Color Dictionaries Robert Ridgway is the forerunner of modern ornithologist. The way he studied birds, by using professional language, classification and accountability made a big leap comparing to those ways of many amateur researchers in the same time period. At the same time, his standardization greatly promoted the professionalization of this field and related field. The books he private published— Color standards and Color Nomenclature is most…

There is a a lot of evidence that backs up the theory of evolution. There are different categories that has hard evidence that the theory of evolution is true. Some people believe differently because of religions. Even though there is hard evidence, it is still not for certain if the theory is true. There are different theories on living evolution that make sense and are interesting. One category that backs up the evolution theory is some of nature's patterns. Some of nature's patterns are…

by Dario Maestripieri in Psychology Today, where it explains the differences between male and female characteristics, such as different emotional stabilities. The variance between different genders is a definite concern that is a result of the evolutionary process and surprisingly affects the personality traits of individuals (Maestripieri). What these sources equally state is that gender is just another factor that can be impressionable upon a person’s personality, which overall may be a minor…

Nature vs. Nurture: Personality Nurture The development of personality has led to much debate. Scientists have argued about what determines it or what affects it more – nature or nurture. There is a case to be made for both. Many believe that personality is determined by nature or, in other words, heredity and genetics. There is also a nurture theory to personality. First of all, nurture will be examined. Proponents of nurture argue that environmental factors influence a particular behavior and…

Evolutionary psychology has been criticized by many, and before I took this class I was not sure which side of the debate I was on. I felt like evolutionary psychology suggested behavior is caused by nature alone, and to some extent it does, but it depends on interpretation. It searches for biological and physiological causes for human behavior, emotions, and motivation. In my other psychology classes I was hearing different views about evolutionary theory from my professors. One professor…

The evolutionary story suggests that our moral beliefs evolved organically to select for what would keep a community alive. That our morals do not approach an objective truth, but are merely adaptively fit. This lends to an argument that since we are not evolved to know the truth, our morals may be totally invalid, and so we cannot rationally believe them. This argument that we cannot trust our morals is flawed. The debunker claims that since evolution selects for fitness rather than moral truth…

2b. The critique presented by Gould and Lewontin in the Spandrels paper describes the shortcomings of the adaptationist program that had been the predominant path of evolutionary thought for decades. Adaptationists see natural selection as the only and all-powerful force that can overcome any constraint to species' traits, and that evolution in turn relies exclusively on natural selection. In challenging this concept of adaptation, Gould and Lewontin are not denying the existence evolution by…

Molecule-To-Man evolution has been taught as fact in public schools for as long as many can remember but why? There are many theories of how humans came to be, although widely accepted evolution is only another theory. Evolution is “where changes occur in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift” (dictionary.com, Evolution)). Although evolution has some scientific background, it should only be taught in…