TL;DR
This study places the predictions of the Biblical creation model (BCM) is set side by side with those of evolutionary theory predictions, and asks which framework the data have confirmed.
It is found that the source of environmental uncertainty determines cognitive design, with weak priors being favored in environments dominated by change, and evolution maximizes the geometric mean number of offspring over generations, an objective that recurs across optimization problems where outcomes accumulate seque...
It is argued that current explanatory practice misses two situations that can arise in any lineage, not only the authors': dynamic: traits continue changing in one direction when a lineage's own niche construction keeps enlarging the problem it faces.
Abstract Prediction has long been a feature of medical genetics. Yet with the advent of polygenic indices (PGIs), there has been a fundamental shift in the complexity and ambiguity of the predictive power afforded by genetics. These indices, which use large datasets to estimate how genetic variants relate to phenotype,...
Sterelny argues that the driving force of human evolution lies in positive feedback generated by interactions among ecological, informational, and reproductive cooperation. Humans shared information necessary for survival and reproduction and constructed cooperative niches; dual inheritance, niche construction, phenoty...
The current state of knowledge about the impact of selection on human genomic diversity is reviewed and conceptual advances in the understanding of human evolution over the past 10,000 years are highlighted.
Accurate predictions of evolutionary response are required to determine whether populations can adapt to rapidly changing environments, or whether they will go extinct. The multivariate breeder's equation enables us to make these predictions using information on the genetic variance and covariance between traits (G) an...
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