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Dukkipati, Ambedkar. "ACE-Model: A Conceptual Evolutionary Model For Evolutionary Computation And Artificial Life." Thesis, Indian Institute of Science, 2002. https://etd.iisc.ac.in/handle/2005/3920.

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Darwinian Evolutionary system - a system satisfying the abstract conditions: reproduction with heritable variation, in a finite world, giving rise to Natural Selection encompasses a complex and subtle system of interrelated theories, whose substantive transplantation to any artificial medium let it be mathematical model or computational model - will be very far from easy. There are two motives in bringing Darwinian evolution into computational frameworks: one to understand the Darwinian evolution, and the other is to view Darwinian evolution - that carries out controlled adaptive-stochastic se

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Dukkipati, Ambedkar. "ACE-Model: A Conceptual Evolutionary Model For Evolutionary Computation And Artificial Life." Thesis, Indian Institute of Science, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2005/47.

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Darwinian Evolutionary system - a system satisfying the abstract conditions: reproduction with heritable variation, in a finite world, giving rise to Natural Selection encompasses a complex and subtle system of interrelated theories, whose substantive transplantation to any artificial medium let it be mathematical model or computational model - will be very far from easy. There are two motives in bringing Darwinian evolution into computational frameworks: one to understand the Darwinian evolution, and the other is to view Darwinian evolution - that carries out controlled adaptive-stochastic se

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Vlerick, Michael Marie Patricia Lucien Hilda. "Darwin's doubt : implications of the theory of evolution for human knowledge." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/71595.

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Thesis (DPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this dissertation I enquire into the status, scope and limits of human knowledge, given the fact that our perceptual and cognitive faculties are the product of evolution by natural selection. I argue that the commonsense representations these faculties provide us with yield a particular, species-specific scope on the world that does not ‘correspond’ in any straightforward way to the external world. We are, however, not bound by these commonsense representations. This particular, species-specific view of the world can b

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Wu, Catherine Kar Yin. "Darwin's new clothes: the Neo-Darwinian meta-logic of cultural evolution." Thesis, University of Sydney, 2011. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26642.

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This thesis examines the current impasse in cultural evolutionary theory, in which the insertion of morality into cultural evolution has compromised the discontinuous, multiscalar principles of neo-Darwinism, creating a moral-evolutionary continuum. I draw on post-structuralist criticality to displace the exclusionary implications of the anthropocentric explanatory continuum, and on the flaws of post—structuralism to clarify the logical necessity of discontinuous, multiscalarity for a neo-Darwinian conception of cultural evolution. In the biological sciences, the principles of Darwinism rem

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Laird, Kurt Wilford. "Mormon Rhetoric and the Theory of Organic Evolution." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2411.pdf.

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Baker, Joseph O. "The Evolution of Creationism." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/485.

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Joseph O. Baker discussed a moving-target strategy of fundamentalist Christians to oppose Darwin’s theory of biological evolution with creationism over the last few hundred years in the United States.

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von, Sydow Momme. "Sociobiology, universal Darwinism and their transcendence : an investigation of the history, philosophy and critique of Darwinian paradigms, especially gene-Darwinism, process-Darwinism, and their types of reductionism - towards a theory of the evolution of evolutionary processes, evolutionary freedom and ecological idealism." Thesis, Durham University, 2001. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3769/.

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Based on a review of different Darwinian paradigms, particularly sociobiology, this work, both, historically and philosophically, develops a metaphysic of gene-Darwinism and process-Darwinism, and then criticises and transcends these Darwinian paradigms in order to achieve a truly evolutionary theory of evolution. Part I introduces essential aspects of current sociobiology as the original challenge to this investigation. The claim of some sociobiologists that ethics should become biologized in a gene-egoistic way, is shown to be tied to certain biological views, which ethically lead to problem

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Peddie, Bill. "Alienated by Evolution: The Educational Implications of Creationist and Social Darwinist Reactions in New Zealand to the Darwinian Theory of Evolution." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2286.

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This investigation explores the reactions to Darwinism in the format and informal education of New Zealand society. The subsidiary purpose is to look at some implications for formal education. Many of the reactions have focussed on distortions of the Darwinian theory of evolution with the form of reaction to Darwinism being centred on different views of humankind. The various group interests have caused different aspects of Darwinism to be highlighted particularly when groups feel their interests are under threat. Using aspects of an "HS3" historical survey technique i.e. the history of the pu

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Elliott, Mats. "The evolution of biological theories: explaining the success of Mendelian genetics, Darwin’s Theory of natural selection and their synthesis." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31420.

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Darwin’s theory of natural selection was not widely accepted in the biological community until its synthesis with Mendelian genetics. I investigate the history of both sciences, with the aim discovering why Mendelian genetics and the synthesis were scientifically successful. One possible explanation for this is given by constructivism, the view that developments in science are decided not by rational reasons, but by contingent factors. A sophisticated version of this view is defended by Gregory Radick, who argues that Weldonian biometry, a rival theory of inheritance, could have supplanted Men

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TARDITI, SPAGNOLI GIORGIO. "Nurture becomes nature: the evolving place of psychology in the theory of evolution." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/80377.

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The thesis here presented establishes a triple parallelism between biology and psychology. First, through Haeckel's recapitulation theory as the source of freudian and jungian psychology. Second, from the reductionist view of science to the new phenomenology of evolutionary developmental biology. Third, by overcoming the reductionist paradigm in biology through the Extended Synthesis and in psychology though the revisited archetype theory. By establishing these parallelisms, the thesis faces the nature vs. nurture debate on three epistemological levels, in which the external and internal level

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O'Neill, Moira Patricia. "Evolution and Cooperation in the Youngstown Area." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1564599603688389.

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Whittle, Patrick Michael. "Why egalitarians should embrace Darwinism: a critical defence of Peter Singer's a Darwinian left." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Social and Political Sciences, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8036.

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Despite most educated people now accepting Darwinian explanations for human physical evolution, many of these same people remain reluctant to accept similar accounts of human behavioural or cognitive evolution. Leftists in particular often assume that our evolutionary history now has little bearing on modern human social behaviour, and that cultural processes have taken over from the biological imperatives at work elsewhere in nature. The leftist view of human nature still largely reflects that of Karl Marx, who believed that our nature is moulded solely by prevailing social and cultural condi

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Baker, Joseph O. "God, the Bible, and Public Response to Evolution: From the Scopes Trial to the 21st Century." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/486.

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Clark, Nicholas Barry Clark. "Darwin's Daikaiju: Representations of Dinosaurs in 20th Century Cinema." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1530828784659758.

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Baker, Joseph O. "Views of Science and Religion among the American Public (with Special Reference to Evolution)." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/484.

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Soares, Antonio Jose Espadinha Vieira. "Cultural evolution : making the case for the study of culture from an evolutionary perspective within the theoretical framework of neo-Darwinism and Meme Theory." Thesis, University of Macau, 2008. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1874120.

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Klose, Joachim. "Gott oder Darwin? vernünftiges Reden über Schöpfung und Evolution." Berlin Heidelberg Springer, 2008. http://d-nb.info/987108522/04.

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Rappe, Christer. "Antaganden inom Darwins evolutionsteori analyserade utifrån den kritiska realismens ontologi." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-58618.

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Syftet med studien är att utöka kunskapen om i vilken omfattning samhällsfaktorer kan ha påverkat Charles Darwin vid utformandet av teorin om det naturliga urvalet. Studien vill på så sätt, utifrån ett sociologiskt perspektiv, bidra till kunskapen om hur den nya synen på naturens evolutionsprocesser kunde växa fram, genom abstraktioner som centrala verktyg i kunskapens produktionsprocess. Utgångspunkten för analysen är Herbert Spencers antagande att samma lagbundna utveckling som gäller för samhällen också gäller för levande organismer. Analysen av Darwins avhandling Om arternas uppkomst begrä

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Schütze, Sven. "Biologische Evolutionstheorie." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-220911.

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Biologische Evolutionstheorie erklärt die sukzessive Veränderung von Arten durch Vererbung und wurde erstmalig von Charles Darwin umfassend formuliert. Die Rezeption durch die Genderforschung umfasst diskursanalytische Studien und die Methodenkritik feministischer Biowissenschaftler_innen. Konkrete Bezugspunkte stellen dabei die sexuelle Selektion, naturalisierende Thesen der Soziobiologie und der evolutionären Psychologie sowie die Rolle des Essentialismus in der Evolutionstheorie Darwins dar.

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Müller, Stephan S. W. "Theorien sozialer Evolution : zur Plausibilität darwinistischer Erklärungen sozialen Wandels /." Bielefeld : Transcript, 2010. http://d-nb.info/998765147/04.

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Samuelsson, Jonatan. "Stora och mäktiga sanningar : En studie av några populärvetenskapliga framställningar av Charles Darwins idéer i Sverige 1859-1909." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-94689.

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Uppsatsen undersöker några svenska populärvetenskapliga framställningar av Darwins idéer under halvseklet efter publiceringen av On the origin of species. De publikationer som studeras mest ingående är Ny illustrerad tidning och Verdandis småskrifter. Med hjälp av Ludwik Flecks vetenskapssociologiska tankar, jämte ett antal andra perspektiv på polulärvetenskapens form och funktion, resonerar jag om populariseringarnas folkbildande och stundtals politiska syften och sätt att presentera en omstridd teori som ovedersägligen sann. Uppsatsen innehåller också en översikt över populärvetenskapens his

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Alpedrinha, J. A. C. V. "Social evolution and sex allocation theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:35e4f1c8-68ea-4395-9e67-5b72982196d6.

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The study of sex allocation is one of the most successful areas in evolutionary biology: its theoretical predictions have been supported by experimental, observational and comparative approaches. Here, I develop sex allocation theory as follows: (1) I use fertility insurance theory to predict the sex ratio strategy of the malaria parasite, in response to human medical interventions that increase mortality and decrease fertility of the parasite’s various sexual stages; (2) Haplodiploidy has been suggested as a driver of the evolution of eusociality, as under this genetic system a female may be

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Redemo, Gustaf. "Är samarbete bra? : En fallstudie av Bohusläns Kooperativa Stenindustris etablering som stenleverantör till Hamburg 1926 utifrån Robert Axelrods samarbetsteori." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-65979.

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Tidigare historisk forskning kring stenindustrin i Bohuslän har fokuserat på utvecklingen av produktionen, kulturens inverkan på hur stenarbetarna organiserade sig, och hur kulturmötet var mellan ideologiska ambulerande stenhuggare och bofasta konservativa bohuslänningar. Den här uppsatsen byter till ett ekonomiskt evolutionärt perspektiv utvecklat av ekonomerna Nelson och Winter. Det är en kritik av den rationelle aktören. Företag är analogt med organismer som är olika väl anpassade till marknadsförändringar. Uppsatsen är en fallstudie för att undersöka hur ett nytt företag kan etablera sig p

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Ulusoy, Suleyman. "The Mathematical Theory of Thin Film Evolution." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/16213.

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We try to explain the mathematical theory of thin liquid film evolution. We start with introducing physical processes in which thin film evolution plays an important role. Derivation of the classical thin film equation and existing mathematical theory in the literature are also introduced. To explain the thin film evolution we derive a new family of degenerate parabolic equations. We prove results on existence, uniqueness, long time behavior, regularity and support properties of solutions for this equation. At the end of the thesis we consider the classical thin film Cauchy problem on t

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McAvoy, Alexander Patrick. "Essays on game theory and stochastic evolution." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58514.

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Evolutionary game theory is a popular framework for modeling the evolution of populations via natural selection. The fitness of a genetic or cultural trait often depends on the composition of the population as a whole and cannot be determined by looking at just the individual ("player") possessing the trait. This frequency-dependent fitness is quite naturally modeled using game theory since a player's trait can be encoded by a strategy and their fitness can be computed using the payoffs from a sequence of interactions with other players. However, there is often a distinct trade-off between the

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Gardner, Andy. "Developments in the theory of social evolution." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/14887.

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The study of social evolution is concerned with fitness consequences of interactions between individuals. It has proven to be an excellent area for relating theoretical predictions to empirical observations. I develop social evolution theory in several ways. (1) I demonstrate that limited male fecundity and small mating groups can select for extreme fertility insurance, curbing female biased sex allocation under local mate competition, which explains puzzling sex ratios in protozoan blood parasites. (2) I examine the underlying causes of an observed statistical invariant in the relative size a

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Nee, S. P. "The units of evolution." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.382534.

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Wärneryd, Karl. "Economic conventions : essays in institutional evolution." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Samhällsekonomi (S), 1990. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-917.

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Conventions are social institutions that solve recurrent coordination problems. Many of the written and unwritten rules that make up a modern market society may be said to have the coordinative property. This dissertation uses a game-theoretical framework to discuss the emergence and functioning of conventions of communication, private property rights, money, and the firm. In each case the anlysis provides new insigts for these classical areas of economic inquiry.<br><p>Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögskolan, 1990</p>

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Di, Gioacchino Debora. "Essays on learning and evolution." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.338128.

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Johnstone, Rufus A. "The evolution of biological signals." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358640.

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Young, Matthew. "Evolution in literature: Natsume Sōseki's theory and practice." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=110701.

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In Bungakuron (Principles of Literature), Natsume Sōseki applies concepts of evolution to dynamics in literature, consciousness, and society. Although he posits that transformations occur in literature and literary movements in a largely contingent and non-teleological manner, he also suggests that development and progress occur in these domains in the direction of ever-increasing differentiation and complexity. In response to the alienating effects of such differentiation and individualization over the course of modernization, he explores the potential for other relations to arise. Such po

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Astolfi, Michael T. "A unified theory of humor and its evolution." Thesis, Boston University, 2007. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27578.

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Thesis (B.A.)--Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.<br>PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.<br>2031-01-02

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Sharp, Keith. "Evolution and social theory : the problem of culture." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19291.

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The primary aim of this thesis is to establish that the central tenets of conventional social theory cannot be sustained in the light of modern evolutionary biological theory (the theory of inclusive fitness). In particular, it is argued that the central social scientific assumption of a radical separation between biology and culture raises insuperable problems for the formulation of the motivation of action, when the logical consequences of modern Darwinian biology are fully considered. At the same time, however, it is argued that recent attempts to apply evolutionary theory to the direct ana

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Ilderton, Anton. "String field theory : time evolution and T-duality." Thesis, Durham University, 2005. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2395/.

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The time evolution operator of quantum field theory (Schrödinger functional) can be written in terms of particles moving on S(^1)/Z(_2-). By deriving the 'gluing property’ which joins two propagators across fixed time surfaces, we show that the Feynman diagram expansion of the free Schrödinger functional is determined once we know the field propagator. We generalise the gluing property to a new method of sewing string field propagators and construct the string field Schrödinger functional in terms of strings moving on S(^1)/Z(_2-). Timelike T-duality in string theory then appears as a large/sm

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鄭啓明 and Kai-ming Cheng. "Evolution problems in supersymmetric quantum mechanics." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3123351X.

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Cheng, Kai-ming. "Evolution problems in supersymmetric quantum mechanics /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13731488.

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Manwaring, Katherine F. "Accepting Evolution and Believing in God: How Religious Persons Perceive the Theory of Evolution." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6215.

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Students frequently hold an incorrect view of evolution. There are several potential barriers that prevent students from engaging evolutionary theory including lack of knowledge, limited scientific reasoning ability, and religiosity. Our research provides tools for overcoming barriers related to religiosity and diagnoses the barriers preventing students from fully engaging in learning the theory of evolution. This was a two-part study. The first part of our study addressed two hypothesized barriers to learning evolutionary theory among members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Bottino, Marcela Nosralla. "Aspectos evolutivos da depressão pós-parto e fatores associados." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2011. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=8890.

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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico<br>A depressão pós-parto (DPP) é uma condição prevalente que afeta globalmente as mulheres puérperas. Uma hipótese evolutiva aborda a depressão, e consequentemente a DPP, como uma resposta proveniente da evolução do comportamento humano ao longo da História, através da seleção natural. A teoria do investimento parental sugere que os pais não investem automaticamente em toda prole; o investimento é direcionado para que o sucesso reprodutivo seja máximo. No caso de os riscos superarem os benefícios reprodutivos, sintomas de depressão

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Kelm, Matthias. "Institutional determinants of economic evolution." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389840.

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Zander, Claudia. "Information measures, entanglement and quantum evolution." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04212008-090506.

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Mihulka, Tomáš. "Evoluční optimalizace analogových obvodů." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-363843.

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The aim of this work was to create a system for optimisaton of specific analog circuits by evolution using multiple fitness functions . A set of experiments was run, and the results analyzed to evaluate the feasibility of evolutionary optimisation of analog circuits . A requirement for this goal is the study and choice of certain types of analog circuits and evolutionary algorithms . For the scope of this work , amplifiers and oscillators were chosen as target circuits , and genetic algorithms and evolutionary strategies as evolutionary algorithms . The motivation for this work is the ongoing

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Zucchiatti, Sedric. "Essays on the Evolution of Prosocial Behaviors." Thesis, IMT Alti Studi Lucca, 2023. http://e-theses.imtlucca.it/371/1/Zucchiatti_PhD_Thesis.pdf.

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Prosocial behaviors – such as helping others, donating, and cooperating – are often considered key to evolutionary suc- cess. Therefore, it is of great interest to understand under what conditions these behaviors can emerge and/or can be sustained at a population level. Following a dual process approach, I study whether and how cognition can affect the evolution of collaboration, cooperation, and generosity. I do this by employing stochastic stability analysis techniques and agent-based simulations. For each prosocial behavior consid-ered, I find that cognition can play an important role

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Nabti, Abderrazak. "Non linear, non-local evolution equations : theory and application." Thesis, La Rochelle, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LAROS032.

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Cette thèse concerne l’étude qualitative (existence locale, existence globale, explosion en temps fini) de quelques équations de Schrödinger non-linéaires non-locales. Dans le cas où les solutions explosent en temps fini, l’estimation du temps maximal d’existence des solutions sera présentée. Le chapitre 1 concerne l’étude d’une équation de Schrödinger non-linéaire sur RN. On s’intéresse à l’existence locale d’une solution pour toute condition initiale donnée dans L2(RN). De plus, on montre que la norme-L2 de la solution explose en temps fini T < 1. Les démonstrations reposent essentielleme

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Arns, Célia Maria. "Jack Richardson's theory of historical evolution in The Prodigal." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFPR, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1884/22280.

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Resumo: Os dramaturgos gregos basearam as suas peças em fatos mitológicos e históricos que receberam uma interpretação trágica. Dentro deste contexto, Jack Richardson, que tem um profundo conhecimento da tragédia Grega, também tenta inserir alguns acontecimentos políticos e históricos que afetam a Civilização Moderna dentro da estrutura do mito de Orestes. Em sua peça, The Prodigal, que está sendo analisada nesta dissertação, ele enfoca a Guerra de Tróia e, como acontece em todas as guerras, os soldados que voltam, como os cidadãos de Argos, são atingidos pelas conseqüências psicológicas de a

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Kerr, William Fraser. "Darwinian social evolution as a theory of social change." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31066.

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This thesis investigates the use of a reconceptualised social evolutionary theory for understanding and explaining how and why societies change, specifically looking at this question through the frame of nationalism. The thesis is split into three parts: in the first part I first examine older forms of social evolutionary theory (conceptions from Marx, Spencer and generalized evolutionary accounts) and critique them on the grounds that they are too ‘progressive’ in character, suffer from teleology and have a notion that all societies change linearly, i.e. pass through the same set of stages. A

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Bentley, Michael. "The dynamical systems theory of natural selection." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ff01467a-c1ac-4852-a4b8-9055e9dcb1b0.

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Darwin's (1859) theory of evolution by natural selection accounts for the adaptations of organisms, but, as Fisher (1930) famously said, 'natural selection is not evolution.' Evolutionary theory has two major components: i) natural selection, which involves the underlying dynamics of populations; and ii) adaptive evolutionary change, which involves the optimisation of phenotypes for fitness maximisation. Many of the traditional theoretical frameworks in evolutionary theory have focussed on studying optimisation processes that generate biological adaptations. In recent years, however, a number

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Episkopou, D. M. "The theory and practice of information systems methodologies : A grounded theory of methodological evolution." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.380960.

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Wuolle, Victoria R. "Conscious Evolution as Catalyst for Emerging Community." Thesis, Marian University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10606785.

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<p> The purpose of this study was to look at the role of Conscious Evolution as a catalyst for community building. The work of the researcher was to take an in depth look at Conscious Evolution in relation to the success and growth of a service oriented nonprofit organization that works in the area of integrated health care. The scientific and theological perspectives of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 20<sup>th</sup> Century Jesuit priest and paleontologist, provided the theoretical framework that guided the study. His understanding of Conscious Evolution, simply described, is the emergence of hu

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Katardjiev, I. V. "Theory and experimental studies of surface evolution during ion bombardment." Thesis, University of Salford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234793.

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Zhang, Guohua. "Exploratory Robotic Controllers : An Evolution and Information Theory Driven Approach." Thesis, Paris 11, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA112208/document.

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Cette thèse porte sur la conception de contrôleurs pour robots explorateurs autonomes basée sur une approche en ligne (online) intégrée, ne nécessitant pas de vérité terrain ni d'intervention de l'expert humain au cours du processus d'entrainement.Le travail présenté se focalise sur le domaine de la robotique autonome et plus particulièrement la conception de controleurs robotiques pour les essaims de robots.Ce contexte présente deux difficultés spécifiques. Premièrement, les approches basées sur l'usage de simulateur sont d'efficacité limitée : d'une part, la précision du simulateur est limit

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