Gaia, Nature Worship and Biocentric Fallacies

Williams, George C.

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“…Adherents of neo-Darwinian informed explanatory frameworks tend to characterize domestication as a one-way adaptive response to new selective pressures [133] in which niche construction, and other developmental processes involved in domestication are portrayed either as adaptive responses to changing selective pressures [134] or as sources Table 2. Test implications and datasets of explanatory frameworks for initial domestication.…”

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Domestication as a model system for the extended evolutionary synthesis

Zeder

2017

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One of the challenges in evaluating arguments for extending the conceptual framework of evolutionary biology involves the identification of a tractable model system that allows for an assessment of the core assumptions of the extended evolutionary synthesis (EES). The domestication of plants and animals by humans provides one such case study opportunity. Here, I consider domestication as a model system for exploring major tenets of the EES. First I discuss the novel insights that niche construction theory (NCT, one of the pillars of the EES) provides into the domestication processes, particularly as they relate to five key areas: coevolution, evolvability, ecological inheritance, cooperation and the pace of evolutionary change. This discussion is next used to frame testable predictions about initial domestication of plants and animals that contrast with those grounded in standard evolutionary theory, demonstrating how these predictions might be tested in multiple regions where initial domestication took place. I then turn to a broader consideration of how domestication provides a model case study consideration of the different ways in which the core assumptions of the EES strengthen and expand our understanding of evolution, including reciprocal causation, developmental processes as drivers of evolutionary change, inclusive inheritance, and the tempo and rate of evolutionary change.

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Section: Causalitymentioning

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Domestication as a model system for the extended evolutionary synthesis

Zeder

2017

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“…The ultimate causal, creative force in evolution, according to standard theory, is natural selection that operates as an asymmetrical, unidirectional process in which organisms are shaped to match features of their environment . Even disruptive selection where the extremes of trait variance are selected over intermediate values involves a unidirectional process in which selection serves as the sole causative agent in evolutionary change.…”

Section: Causationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why evolutionary biology needs anthropology: Evaluating core assumptions of the extended evolutionary synthesis

Zeder

2018

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Anthropologists have a long history of applying concepts from evolutionary biology to cultural evolution. Evolutionary biologists, however, have been slow to turn to anthropology for insights about evolution. Recently, evolutionary biology has been engaged in a debate over the need to revise evolutionary theory to account for developments made in 60 years since the Modern Synthesis, the standard evolutionary paradigm, was framed. Revision proponents maintain these developments challenge central tenets of standard theory that can only be accounted for in an extended evolutionary synthesis (EES). Anthropology has much to offer to this debate. One important transition in human cultural evolution, the domestication of plants and animals, provides an ideal model system assessing core EES assumptions about directionality, causality, targets of selection, modes of inheritance, and pace of evolution. In so doing, anthropologists contribute to an overarching framework that brings together cultural and biological evolution.

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“…Esta modelagem, dinâmica e homeostática, deve ser observada com cautela, devido o risco de instabilidade estrutural, que pode ser causado por pequenas mudanças no modelo (ABRAHAM, 2009). No caso de ambientes subterrâneos, esta mudança fundamental no modelo pode ser interpretada pela simplificação da biosfera, muito provavelmente incapaz de regular o ambiente em processo de retroalimentação, assim como sugerem, para os casos gerais, Williams (1992) e Lenton (1998) Trajano (1992), para colônias de morcegos atuando no aumento da temperatura do ar em algumas cavernas. Todavia, trabalhos recentes têm demonstrado a retroalimentação existente entre a biosfera e a atmosfera, como no caso das cianobactérias oceânicas e a formação de nuvens, corroborando em parte com as hipóteses geofisiológicas Lovelock (2006).…”

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Espeleoclima E Manejo De Cavernas: Estado-Da-Arte

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2012

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INTRODUÇÃOAs cavernas se constituem em espaços subterrâneos em meio às rochas, cujas dimensões podem variar horizontal ou verticalmente, entre poucos metros e centenas de quilômetros, com um ou mais acessos à superfície. As cavernas se constituem como elementos-chave de um sistema cárstico, intervindo tanto em processos de transformação em superfície e subsuperfície do meio físico (CIGNA; FORTI, 1986;SCHMEKAL, 2003) quanto na manutenção da fauna cavernícola (HOENEN;MARQUES, 2000;BICHUETTE, 2006).A atmosfera das cavernas é marcada por singularidades que a diferenciam dos demais sistemas atmosféricos naturais, em função de fatores como o confinamento espacial, a ausência de luz e a baixa incidência de energia solar direta (BUECHER, 1999; CIGNA, 2004).

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Gaia, Nature Worship and Biocentric Fallacies

Cited by 84 publications

References 16 publications

Domestication as a model system for the extended evolutionary synthesis

Domestication as a model system for the extended evolutionary synthesis

Why evolutionary biology needs anthropology: Evaluating core assumptions of the extended evolutionary synthesis

Espeleoclima E Manejo De Cavernas: Estado-Da-Arte

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