1. The 12 Days of Evolution - Complete Series!
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There's already a shit ton of stuff on evolution to come, this was just a good review for it.
But here are a few quotes from Anti's favourite book "Blindsight":
“People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.”
― Blindsight
― Blindsight
“There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.”
― Blindsight
― Blindsight
“Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources.”
― Blindsight
― Blindsight
“Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down a precise hexagon? It doesn't. It's programmed to chew up wax and spit it out while turning on its axis, and that generates a circle. Put a bunch of bees on the same surface, chewing side-by-side, and the circles abut against each other - deform each other into hexagons, which just happen to be more efficient for close packing anyway.”
― Blindsight
― Blindsight
2. Human Behavioural Biology
2.1) Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology
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2.1) Behavioural Evolution
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If natural selection is survival of the fittest, why isn't everything a competition? Cooperation and competition have a fitness face off in game theory.
By: Charles C. Cowden © 2012 Nature Education Why do animals help others at the potential cost of their own survival and reproduction?
By: Terrence P. McGlynn (Department of Biology, California State University) © 2010 Nature Education 2.3) Behavioral Evolution II
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Why does the peacock have such an elaborate tail? This cumbersome trait significantly decreases the male's chances of survival. It only exists because it confers an advantage to its bearer in the form of increased reproductive success.
By: Patricia L. R. Brennan (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University) © 2010 Nature Education