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Introducing Evolution

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  • LM CZhat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
    The fact that humans have evolved from apes does not force any particular moral conclusion. Our evolutionary past is one thing. Our future is quite another.
  • LM CZhat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
    This is not to say that science can tell us everything. Science can’t tell us how we should live, for example. Science can inform us only about how things are, not about how things should be.
  • LM CZhat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
    All attempts to answer that question before 1859 are worthless and …we will be better off if we ignore them completely.
  • LM CZhat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
    The battle between science and superstition is not over yet…
  • LM CZhat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
    And unlike other influential ideas from the 19th century, such as Marxism and Freud’s psychoanalysis, the theory of evolution has not been discredited. On the contrary, the evidence in its favour is greater than ever.
  • LM CZhat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
    The theory of evolution by natural selection is not only at the heart of modern biology, but is becoming increasingly important in many other fields, from artificial intelligence and psychology to philosophy, anthropology and even sociology.
  • LM CZhat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
    Computer programs that evolve in this way are called “genetic algorithms”.
  • LM CZhat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
    Here we have all three elements of natural selection: competition, copying and mutation. Computer programs could therefore evolve and adapt. We can therefore be regarded as living things.

    That is why this field of artificial intelligence is called “artificial life”.
  • LM CZhat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
    Anything that evolves by natural selection must therefore be regarded as a living thing, not metaphorically but literally. Conversely, anywhere we find life, we will find evolution by natural selection.

    If we ever discover life on another planet, we can be sure that it will be the product of an evolutionary process.
  • LM CZhat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
    Richard Dawkins has argued that the capacity to evolve by natural selection is in fact the defining feature of life.
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