Natural selection theory

Jeme, N.K. (1955). The natural-selection theory of antibody formation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 41, 849-857. 

Wallace, A. R. 1889. Darwinism An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection with Some of Its Applications. Macmillan, London. 

The power of the theory of natural selection is not the power to prove exactly how (pre)history was but only the power to prove how it could have been, given what we know about how things are (Dennett 1995, p. 319). 

John Dupre I guess what I want to point to is not to deny that there is any evolutionary basis for maternal attachment. The question that I put to you after your talk - what do we learn more than the fairly banal empirical observation that people have certainly made before anybody had ever heard of natural selection, that mothers are generally attached to their children This is an empirical fact. It s one certainly that is entirely consistent with and indeed even implied by the theory of evolution by natural selection. So what do we learn, what have we learned, other than that evolutionary. .. ... 

In an alternative theory, the results of population dynamics rather than Darwinian natural selection are responsible for the regulation of environmental conditions (Staley, 2002). 

Some of the mathematical basis for the equations is due to the geneticist Moto Kimura, who is considered a resolute proponent of the neutral theory of evolution , which states that statistical, chance fluctuations are more important in the formation of new species than is Darwinian natural selection. Evolution via such chance fluctuations is referred to as genetic drift . Dyson considers that both forms of evolution are important (Dyson, 1999). 

The optimal defense theory predicts that the benefit/cost ratio of defenses will be maximized by natural selection. When a plant consists of different kinds of tissues, within-plant variation in defenses is predicted to depend on the value of the plant part for fitness and on its risk of becoming grazed. The more valuable the tissue is... 

Evolution by natural selection was first explained by Charles Darwin in his book On ttie Origin of Species (1859). Briefly stated, the theory suggests that evolution occurs through heritable propagation of adaptive traits. Nature produces a large variation in the traits of organisms. Those traits that are in some way adaptive, increasing the survival and... 

Now we show that there is a surprising relation between Fisher s fundamental theorem of natural selection and other theory developed by Fisher, the likelihood theory in statistics and Fisher information [21], As far as we know, the present chapter is the first publication in the literature pointing out the connections between these two problems formulated and studied by Fisher. 

R. A. Fisher, (1930) The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, Clarendon, Oxford, 1930 reprinted by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999, pp. 22-47. 

Charles Darwin published the theory of evolution through natural selection... 

The argument so far has been highly abstract and general, because it is intended to be valid fora number of selection mechanisms. It applies to the biological theory of natural selection, where it first arose, but also to the theory of economic competition, the theory of unconscious motivation and the theory of computer chess programs. Before I consider the first two in more deuil, I shall digress for a moment and say a few words about the relation between biology and the social sciences. 

Symmetry establishes a ridiculous and wonderful oousinship between objects, phenomena, and theories outwardly unrelated terrestial magnetism, women s veils, polarized light, natural selection, the theory of groups, invariants and transformations, the work habits of bees in the hive, the structure of space, vase designs, quantum physics, scarabs, flower petals,... 

Periodically, science moves to a point where a wide range of observations can be explained by a single comprehensive idea that has stood up to repeated scrutiny. Such an idea is wbat scientists call a theory. Biologists, for instance, speak of the theory of natural selection and use it to explain both the unity and the diversity of life. Physicists speak of the theory of relativity and use it to explain how we are held to Earth by gravity. Chemists speak of the theory ofthe atom and use it to explain how one material can transform into another. 

Fisher, R. A. The Genetic Theory of Natural Selection, London Oxford University Press 1930 2nd edition New-York Dover Publications 1958... 

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) begins his historic voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle (1831-1836). His observations during the voyage lead to his theory of evolution by means of natural selection. 

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