The Evolutionary Imperative

Author : Charles H. M. Beck,Louis Neal Irwin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781664186743

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The Evolutionary Imperative by Charles H. M. Beck,Louis Neal Irwin Pdf

The Evolutionary Imperative provides a unifying perspective on the evolution of the universe in all its physical and biological detail, with a call to action for redirecting the evolutionary trajectory of human society. The book’s thesis is that change is inevitable, driven by resolution of energy gradients through the Principle of Least Action and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This energy dissipation model of the evolutionary imperative accounts for all the organization of matter and energy that has ever come about, and offers a transcendent view of the world, and the place and fate of the human species within it.

Author : Charles H. M. Beck,Louis Neal Irwin
Publisher : CCB Publishing
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781771432986

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The Evolutionary Imperative: Why Change Happens, Where It Leads, and How We Might Survive by Charles H. M. Beck,Louis Neal Irwin Pdf

Author : Paul Stewart Henshaw
Publisher : New York : Exposition Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : 0682477931

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The Evolutionary Imperative by Paul Stewart Henshaw Pdf

Author : Kenneth E. Maxwell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781489959881

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The Sex Imperative by Kenneth E. Maxwell Pdf

"The sex imperative - the irresistible impulse to engage in sexual relations - has enabled animals to share their genes and evolve. Maxwell traces the progress of sex from the simple sharing of genes between cells to the elaborate courtship rituals that developed so sperm could merge with egg. In the effort to join sperm and egg, species have developed some astounding and unusual sexual adaptations. As Maxwell vividly describes the sex lives of various creatures, he attests to the resiliency and amazing adaptability of life to its everchanging environment. By focusing on the diversity of animal sexual relationships, Maxwell enables us to question the very basis of sexuality: What is sex? Why did it evolve? How does sexuality and survival shape the social behavior of animals and humans? The sex imperative is indeed the driving force behind Darwin's theory of random variation and natural selection, better known as "survival of the fittest." Maxwell goes so far as to investigate our latest accomplishment in the science of begetting offspring: genetic engineering." "This awe-inspiring and unique work celebrates the power and wonder of life and sexuality of all creatures - including humans. After reading this engrossing and illuminating work, no one will ever think of evolution in the same way."--Jacket

Author : Charles M. Johnston
Publisher : Charles Johnston
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0974715409

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The Creative Imperative by Charles M. Johnston Pdf

The Creative Imperative confronts the most critical question of our time: how we must think to have a vital future. It first introduced the thinking of Creative Systems Theory over thirty years ago and remains one of the most important resources for understanding the theory and its contribution. It is also a valued reference for people interested in a deep understanding of creative process. Creative Systems Theory is a comprehensive framework for understanding purpose, change, and interrelationship in human systems. It helps us better understand the past, tease apart current cultural dilemmas, and make sense of what a vital human future will require of us. The theory offers a overarching approach to understanding that reflects the more mature and encompassing kind of thinking that will become more and more essential in times ahead. The Creative Imperative is significant not just for the insights it brings from Creative Systems Theory's beginnings, but also for the particular attention it brings to many of the theory's foundational concepts. In addition, it richly documents ideas with photographs of art and architecture through history. Much in Creative Systems Theory has not been expressed more richly or fully since.

Author : Thomas C. G. Bosch,David J. Miller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783709118962

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The Holobiont Imperative by Thomas C. G. Bosch,David J. Miller Pdf

This book examines how the growing knowledge of the huge range of animal-bacterial interactions, whether in shared ecosystems or intimate symbioses, is fundamentally altering our understanding of animal biology. Individuals from simple invertebrates to human are not solitary, homogenous entities but consist of complex communities of many species that likely evolved during a billion years of coexistence. Defining the individual microbe-host conversations in these consortia, is a challenging but necessary step on the path to understanding the function of the associations as a whole. The hologenome theory of evolution considers the holobiont with its hologenome as a unit of selection in evolution. This new view may have profound impact on understanding a strictly microbe/symbiont-dependent life style and its evolutionary consequences. It may also affect the way how we approach complex environmental diseases from corals (coral bleaching) to human (inflammatory bowel disease etc). The book is written for scientists as well as medically interested persons in the field of immunobiology, microbiology, evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine and corals.

Author : Matthieu Ricard
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780834840546

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A Plea for the Animals by Matthieu Ricard Pdf

Every cow just wants to be happy. Every chicken just wants to be free. Every bear, dog, or mouse experiences sorrow and feels pain as intensely as any of us humans do. In a compelling appeal to reason and human kindness, Matthieu Ricard here takes the arguments from his best-sellers Altruism and Happiness to their logical conclusion: that compassion toward all beings, including our fellow animals, is a moral obligation and the direction toward which any enlightened society must aspire. He chronicles the appalling sufferings of the animals we eat, wear, and use for adornment or "entertainment," and submits every traditional justification for their exploitation to scientific evidence and moral scrutiny. What arises is an unambiguous and powerful ethical imperative for treating all of the animals with whom we share this planet with respect and compassion.

Author : Robert Ardrey
Publisher : Kodansha Globe
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : PSU:000043635825

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The Territorial Imperative by Robert Ardrey Pdf

Author : Emory Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Christianity
ISBN : UOM:39015034739766

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The Evolution of Love by Emory Miller Pdf

Author : David W. Orr
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781597267007

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Hope Is an Imperative by David W. Orr Pdf

The author has championed the cause of ecological literacy in higher education, helping to establish and shape the field of ecological design, and working to raise awareness of the threats to future generations posed by humanity's current unsustainable trajectory.This volume brings together his most important works.

Author : Ralph C. S. Walker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192671233

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Objective Imperatives by Ralph C. S. Walker Pdf

Kant held the moral law to be an objective imperative, an entity in its own right. It carries with it prescriptive force, in parallel to other principles of pure reason, like those of logic and mathematics. Objective imperatives therefore do not derive their authority from any other source, such as common consensus or the will of God. In Objective Imperatives, Ralph C. S. Walker seeks to show that this is a highly defensible view: Kant's Categorical Imperative, properly understood, is broadly right. The key to it is rationality, and not universality, which functions only as an approximate test. Often, Kant sets the matter out badly, and most of the common objections to him can be shown to be due to misunderstandings. A morality that gives us an objective imperative does appear incompatible with the determinism to which Kant commits himself, but Walker argues that this appearance is misleading.

Author : Alexander Alland Jr.
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1972-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0231514611

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The Human Imperative by Alexander Alland Jr. Pdf

The Human Imperative

Author : Joel Rini
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027299666

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Exploring the Role of Morphology in the Evolution of Spanish by Joel Rini Pdf

After a brief survey of the perception of morphological change in the standard works of the Hispanic tradition in the 20th century, the author first attempts to refine concepts such as analogy, leveling, blending, contamination, etc. as they have been applied to Spanish. He then revisits difficult problems of Spanish historical grammar and explores the extent to which various types of morphological processes may have operated in a given change. Selected problems are examined in light of abundant textual evidence. Some include: the resistance to change of Sp. dormir ‘to sleep’, morir ‘to die’, the vocalic sequence /ee/, the reduction of the OSp. verbal suffixes -ades, -edes, -ides, -odes, and the uncertain origin of Sp. eres ‘you are’. Important notions such as the directionality of leveling, phonological vs. morphological change in the nominal and verbal paradigms, the morphological spread of sound change, and the role of morphological factors in apparent syntactic change are discussed.

Author : Michael Stingl,John Collier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000761108

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Evolutionary Moral Realism by Michael Stingl,John Collier Pdf

Against standard approaches to evolution and ethics, this book develops the idea that moral values may find their origin in regularly recurring features in the cooperative environments of species of organisms that are social and intelligent. Across a wide range of species that are social and intelligent, possibilities arise for helping others, responding empathetically to the needs of others, and playing fairly. The book identifies these underlying environmental regularities as biological natural kinds and as natural moral values. As natural kinds, moral values help to provide more complete explanations for the selection of traits that arise in response to them. For example, helping in an aquatic environment is quite different than helping in an arboreal environment, and so we can expect the selection of traits for helping to reflect these underlying environmental differences. With the human ability to name, talk, and reason about important features of our environment, moral values become part of moral discourse and argument, helping to produce coherent systems of moral thought. Combining a naturalistic approach to morality with an equal emphasis on moral argument and truth, this book will be of interest to philosophers and historians of biology, theoretical biologists, comparative psychologists, and moral philosophers.

Author : Markus F. Brameier,Wolfgang Banzhaf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780387310305

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Linear Genetic Programming by Markus F. Brameier,Wolfgang Banzhaf Pdf

Linear Genetic Programming presents a variant of Genetic Programming that evolves imperative computer programs as linear sequences of instructions, in contrast to the more traditional functional expressions or syntax trees. Typical GP phenomena, such as non-effective code, neutral variations, and code growth are investigated from the perspective of linear GP. This book serves as a reference for researchers; it includes sufficient introductory material for students and newcomers to the field.