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230 Wybo Houkes intentionalist framework; in both cases, the conceptual border between organisms and artifacts is open, and inte ...
The Open Border 231 circuits before recombination. After all, such preprogramming might introduce conven- tional design methods ...
232 Wybo Houkes solutions to the scalability problem: even for relatively simple problems, such as construct- ing patterns of te ...
The Open Border 233 problem are modeled. Since, however, our current knowledge of nature’s strategies is incomplete, this search ...
234 Wybo Houkes This dichotomy is supplemented with a hypothesis about the underlying processes and with an explicit explanatory ...
The Open Border 235 from a neighboring tribe, who produced this functionally equivalent but stylistically dif- ferent artifact. ...
236 Wybo Houkes a study by Michael Schiffer (1996). Although they show that Schiffer’s results can be reproduced by using cladog ...
The Open Border 237 between artifacts and organisms and to import selectionist concepts and mechanisms on the basis of these sim ...
238 Wybo Houkes willingness to employ structural similarities between organisms and artifacts and to trans- fer additional conce ...
The Open Border 239 Although there ought to be no a priori regulations for this type of transfer, the open- border image does no ...
240 Wybo Houkes Recently some researchers have argued that there might also be design problems that can be solved only by ED me ...
The Open Border 241 References Bentley, P. J. (ed.). (1999). Evolutionary Design by Computers. San Francisco: Morgan-Kaufmann. B ...
242 Wybo Houkes Renfrew, C., and Bahn, P. G. (2004). Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice, 4th ed. London: Thames & H ...
14 Innovation and Population 14.1 The Problem for Evolutionary Theories of Technology Change According to one standard story, Da ...
244 Tim Lewens sense, then, natural selection was already copied from the realm of artifacts. According to many standard present ...
Innovation and Population 245 regarding the relative importance in technological explanation of social, economic, psy- chologica ...
246 Tim Lewens Moving away from biology for a moment, it seems appropriate to offer something like a typological explanation whe ...
Innovation and Population 247 This makes it hard to characterize “population thinking” as a third conceptual innovation wholly d ...
248 Tim Lewens the constraining or facilitating properties of commonly found construction materials, but it may also mean lookin ...
Innovation and Population 249 Remember that the essential feature of Darwin’s theory of evolution is population thinking.... All ...
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