Chapter 3: Selection and Adaptation Barry Sinervo © 1997-2007 It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relatio...

This paper aims at proposing a cognitive structure for discourse deixis, in terms of which deixis is understood and used to structure reality, so that reality is internally experienced and hence reproduced or changed. The paper also tries to argue that discourse deixis is metaphorically derived from place deixis. This analysis is consistent with and confirms the spatialization-of-form hypothesi...

This paper presents an application currently being developed for multiplatform devices, primarily mobile, in which a user can personalise content to suit their interests and learning preference. The Talking Walls® is a pilot project that forms the basis of research regarding an adaptable multimedia template application for heritage sites, museums or historical buildings. It is being designed fo...

The provincial editor of the Journal of Mental Science is in high dudgeon because his teachings have been called in question, or rather, to speak more correctly, even if more metaphorically, because some of the flimsy theories of his estimable master, the late Dr. Skae, which it was his object diligently to inflate, have been touched and have exploded. Skae's classification of mental diseases h...

This paper presents a general model for sonification of large spatial data sets (e.g. seismic data, medical data) based on ideas from ecological acoustics. The model incorporates not only what we hear (the sounds), but also how we listen (the interaction). Metaphorically speaking the interpreter is walking along paths in areas of the data set, listening to locally and globally defined sound obj...

What’s all the fuss about? The original issue in CHI-WEB was whether to use a shopping cart metaphor when designing e-commerce sites. Some contributors pointed with glee to examples of shopping sleds and wheelbarrows, while others insisted that a cart is a cart is a cart. Don said that we shouldn’t be using any of these things and should just have “lists of items purchased”. Naturally, this lef...

It is often overlooked that local quantum physics has a built in quantum localization structure which may under certain circumstances disagree with (differential, algebraic) geometric ideas. String theory originated from such a spectacular misinterpretation of a source-target embedding in which an inner symmetry of the source object becomes the Lorentz symmetry of the target space. The quantum ...

Abstract Those who wish to defend the role of aesthetic values in science face a dilemma: language is either used metaphorically for what are ultimately epistemic features, or it literally, but importance such unclear. This article introduces new account that gets around this problem by considering an overlooked source value science: relation between form and content. A fit content thought expe...

A spatially explicit model previously developed to apply to a population of arboreal nesting ants in southern Mexico is explored in detail, including notions of criticality and robust criticality and expected power law adjustment. Introduction Spatial pattern has long been a preoccupation of ecologists, from the observational work of early botanists (e.g. Clements, 1916; Shelford, 1913) to the ...

This article outlines the collaborative process of making a watercolour animation drawn from research with women who swim wild in rivers, lakes and seas. Discussing graphic storytelling sociology, anthropology related disciplines, we share our experiences creative collaboration, describing detail practical research-led to wider swimming community situating project within larger discussion publi...