evolutionary approach
1Evolutionary epistemology — refers to two distinct topics: it is a subfield of naturalized epistemology as well as a theory in epistemology about the growth of knowledge. A branch of naturalized epistemology Evolutionary epistemology is a branch of epistemology that applies …
2Evolutionary robotics — (ER) is a methodology that uses evolutionary computation to develop controllers for autonomous robots. Algorithms in ER frequently operate on populations of candidate controllers,initially selected from some distribution. This population is then… …
3Evolutionary physiology — is the study of physiological evolution, which is to say, the manner in which the functional characteristics of individuals in a population of organisms have responded to selection across multiple generations during the history of the… …
4Evolutionary linguistics — is the scientific study of the origins and development of language. The main challenge in this research is the lack of empirical data: spoken language leaves no traces. This led to an abandonment of the field for more than a century [for about 12 …
5Evolutionary psychology — (EP) attempts to explain mental and psychological traits such as memory, perception, or language as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection. Adaptationist thinking about physiological mechanisms,… …
6Evolutionary ethics — concerns approaches to ethics (morality) based on the role of evolution in shaping human psychology and behavior. Such approaches may be based in scientific fields such as evolutionary psychology or sociobiology, with a focus on understanding and …
7Evolutionary developmental biology — (evolution of development or informally, evo devo) is a field of biology that compares the developmental processes of different animals and plants in an attempt to determine the ancestral relationship between organisms and how developmental… …
8Evolutionary developmental psychology — Evolutionary developmental psychology, (or EDP), is the application of the basic principles of Darwinian evolution, particularly natural selection, to explain contemporary human development. It involves the study of the genetic and environmental… …
9Evolutionary neuropathology — is an approach to understanding neurological and neurodegenerative diseases in terms of adaptation to environment, natural history and evolutionary medicine. Conceptually, it overlaps with a number of areas in theoretical biology, such as… …
10Evolutionary Suicide — – die deutsche Übersetzung evolutionärer Selbstmord hat noch keine Verbreitung in der deutschsprachigen Fachliteratur gefunden – ist eine Theorie der Evolutionslehre, die besagt, dass die evolutionäre Anpassung eines Individuums zum Aussterben… …
