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250 Tim Lewens (2005: 70). If we assume that all individuals in a population have a psychology that dis- poses them to fi nd fre ...
Innovation and Population 251 are not, then social scientists should correct their explanations (and the intuitions on which the ...
252 Tim Lewens this does not make it trivial, because it reminds us that there are explanations of different levels of innovativ ...
Innovation and Population 253 interested in seeing what effect individual psychological dispositions—especially disposi- tions t ...
254 Tim Lewens possibility that small populations can thereby “drift” toward the bottoms of small adaptive peaks, which allows t ...
Innovation and Population 255 and a most harmonious and comprehensive language; so that every circumstance among that people see ...
256 Tim Lewens blending inheritance to permit cumulative change (Richerson and Boyd (2005): 88–90). Questions of this sort are p ...
Innovation and Population 257 References Amundson, R. (2005). The Changing Role of the Embyro in Evolutionary Thought. Cambridge ...
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15 The Cost of Modularity 15.1 Introduction Biological organisms are complex systems, as are most modern technical artifacts. Ho ...
260 Ulrich Krohs A hot topic with respect to biological modularity is how to explain its evolution. I discuss arguments that hav ...
The Cost of Modularity 261 components, for example, enzymes and metabolites, may occur in almost even distribution within the ce ...
262 Ulrich Krohs Since modularity includes a dynamic dimension, the concept is applicable to develop- mental processes as well. ...
The Cost of Modularity 263 most widely applied class of explanations and show that current arguments belonging to this class are ...
264 Ulrich Krohs vidual.^8 It is much more plausible to regard evolvability as a by-product of other selective processes. Follow ...
The Cost of Modularity 265 modularization than that found in actual biological organisms, reveal that modularity may have disadv ...
266 Ulrich Krohs structures did not bring about modules that are separated more nicely than actually found. So the arguments abo ...
The Cost of Modularity 267 15.5 Kinds of Costs of Modularity While the cost side is missing in current explanations of the evolu ...
268 Ulrich Krohs made clear from a modular stereo set. 2) More housings are needed, one for each module. This causes additional ...
The Cost of Modularity 269 vant for the evolution of modularity, or they themselves may be in need of an evolutionary explanatio ...
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