CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Jonathan Weiner, Peppered Moth, Karl Sims

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: CGSC 1001
• Professor: Jim Davies

Document Summary

Evolution: occurs whenever these three things exist, generation of diversity; Survival and reproduction of the fittest: transmitted change. Karl sims - evolved virtual creatures, evolution simulation, 1994: here"s another evolution, this time of walking: http://io9. com/watch-as-these-adorable-robots- evolve-the-ability-to-wa-480989422. Biological evolution: natural selection, sexual selection, artificial selection (e. g. , breeding) Originally, the typica moth (right) flourished in england, because it blended in with the lichens on trees. During the industrial revolution, the trees became covered with soot, resulting in the flourishing of the darker carbonaria (left). When england cleaned itself up, typica made a comeback. The beak of the finch: a story of evolution in our time: by jonathan weiner (1995, finch beaks evolve with the weather, one of my favourite books. Evolutionary psychology: explaining psychological traits as evolutionary adaptations, adaptationism: theorizing about evolutionary causes for phenotypes, evolutionary psychology generates hypotheses, but these must be tested, many people will believe an evolutionary story without evidence.