I must congratulate the organizers for choosing this important topic for deliberation in this seminar. I have great pleasure in mentioning that the theme of the Report on Currency and Finance 2004-05, prepared by the staff of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), is also that of evolution of Central Banking in India (RBI, 2005a). In going through the process of compilation of the Report, I have foun...

This report investigates Requirements Evolution for computer-based systems. Although practitioners and researchers recognise the problem, there has been little research effort in investigating models of Requirements Evolution. This is due to lack of long term evolutionary data and models to analyse them. This report takes into account Requirements Evolution for computer-based systems and invest...

Frequency-dependent selection may favour the evolution of mixed reproductive strategies, resulting in polymorphic life-histories within a population. Here I explore the theoretical and ecological possibilities for evolution of mixed reproductive strategies in two minimal age-structured life-history models. The first model addresses evolution of delayed maturity (i.e., competition between annual...

This paper combines perspectives from evolutionary biology and linguistics to discuss the early evolution of laughter possible role laughter-like vocalisation as a bonding mechanism in hominins human species. From perspective biology, we here emphasise several things: exaptation, typically very slow pace change, danger projecting backwards current utilities infer its earlier function, hundreds ...