Mr. Lowne and Darwinian Difficulties

I. Difficulties accounting for human ultrasociality in Darwinian terms

Large scale human cooperation and conflict

Lamarckian and Darwinian Theories

What is it that makes natural evolution so successful at finding solutions to real-world problems? If this question can be understood and answered we will be in possession of a powerful new tool for overcoming many of the difficulties now being faced by the more mathematical approaches to communication problems. Evolution will not tolerate Lamarckian control. Indeed unfettered diversity is the ...

Darwinian Networks

We suggest Darwinian networks (DNs) as a simplification of working with Bayesian networks (BNs). DNs adapt a handful of wellknown concepts in biology into a single framework that is surprisingly simple, yet remarkably robust. With respect to modeling, on one hand, DNs not only represent BNs, but also faithfully represent the testing of independencies in a more straightforward fashion. On the ot...

Darwinian fitness.

The term Darwinian fitness refers to the capacity of a variant type to invade and displace the resident population in competition for available resources. Classical models of this dynamical process claim that competitive outcome is a deterministic event which is regulated by the population growth rate, called the Malthusian parameter. Recent analytic studies of the dynamics of competition in te...

Darwinian Individuals