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1. We can’t see much energy, but we can observe its interactions and affects. Spirit is analogous to energy and is more important than matter and materialism.
2. Human relationships guided by morals and ethics enabled transition from family tribes to civilization.
-How did the forbidden apple, giving Adam and Eve “knowledge of good and evil,” evolve into the moral and ethical laws that enabled civilization?
-”We are spiritual beings having a physical experience,
Rather than physical beings having a spiritual experience.”
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This document proposes a mathematical framework called "eco-phenotypic physiologies" to model the relationships between evolution, ecology, and cultural transmission. The framework models populations of agents that have physiologies determining how they extract and use resources from their environment. It accounts for resource availability, agent interactions, niche construction, and intergenerational transmission of traits through reaction norms that dictate how offspring develop their physiologies based on parents and environment. The goal is to use this unified framework to study how different elements impact population dynamics over time and compare patterns from various reaction norms.
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http://www.epistemologia.eu
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Presenta Anna Alessandrello
This document contains definitions of key biology and genetics terms provided by a student named Beverley Sutton from Pistor Middle School. The definitions are simplified explanations intended for other students to understand. Some terms defined include adaptation, allele, asexual reproduction, cell, cell division, chromosome, DNA, dominant, evolve, gene, genotype, heterozygous, inherit, migrate, natural selection, offspring, phenotype, punnett square, recessive, sexual reproduction, species, and symbiosis.
FROM HUMAN RELATIONSIIPS TO CIVILIZATION VIA ETHICSPaul H. Carr
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- Big bang energy first then matter: A spiritual ethic
1. We can’t see much energy, but we can observe its interactions and affects. Spirit is analogous to energy and is more important than matter and materialism.
2. Human relationships guided by morals and ethics enabled transition from family tribes to civilization.
-How did the forbidden apple, giving Adam and Eve “knowledge of good and evil,” evolve into the moral and ethical laws that enabled civilization?
-”We are spiritual beings having a physical experience,
Rather than physical beings having a spiritual experience.”
Teilhard de Chardin SJ
Il mistero dell’universo e dell’uomo attraverso tre personaggi chiaveEmanuele Serrelli
The document provides biographical information about Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French philosopher and Jesuit priest. It details his education and career, including his studies in paleontology under Marcellin Boule at the Museum of Natural History in Paris from 1912. It discusses his scientific research and teaching career in China from 1920-1946, including expeditions he participated in. It also mentions his major works such as The Phenomenon of Man and Le Milieu Divin.
This document proposes a mathematical framework called "eco-phenotypic physiologies" to model the relationships between evolution, ecology, and cultural transmission. The framework models populations of agents that have physiologies determining how they extract and use resources from their environment. It accounts for resource availability, agent interactions, niche construction, and intergenerational transmission of traits through reaction norms that dictate how offspring develop their physiologies based on parents and environment. The goal is to use this unified framework to study how different elements impact population dynamics over time and compare patterns from various reaction norms.
The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: new theory, new practices, new marketing...Emanuele Serrelli
Serrelli E (2013). The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: new theory, new practices, new marketing, or new narratives?. Talk at The Evolution Conference [joint annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB), and the American Society of Naturalists (ASN)], Snowbird, Utah, USA, June 21-25th.
This document discusses the evolution of evolutionary theory over time. It lists several famous scientists such as Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Donald Campbell, Ronald Fisher, Sewall Wright, J.B.S. Haldane, and Stephen Jay Gould who contributed to the field of evolutionary biology and helped advance understanding of evolution through their research. The document emphasizes that evolution is an ongoing process of discovery.
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http://www.epistemologia.eu
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2013, Oct 22 (h.10) - Ciclo "Scienza FalsaScienza", Centro Filippo Buonarroti, Museo di Storia Naturale & Pikaia il Portale dell'Evoluzione, Milano, IT: Il collo delle giraffe e il naso di pinocchio. With Marcello Sala, Marco Ferraguti. Conference for schools.
In un’epoca in cui la società è sempre più permeata dalla trasmissione dell’informazione sulle scoperte della scienza, sui progressi della medicina e della tecnologia, cresce paradossalmente in molti ambiti un atteggiamento antiscientifico. Convinzioni e credenze diverse alimentano la ricerca di soluzioni illusorie, irrazionali, o una visione della scienza minacciosa e apocalittica. L'antidoto è fornire un'informazione corretta lungo la strada dell’educazione alla conoscenza del sapere.
Martedì 22 ottobre 2013, ore 10.00 (solo per le classi prenotate)
IL COLLO DELLE GIRAFFE E IL NASO DI PINOCCHIO: Errori e facilonerie in cui spesso si incappa quando si parla di evoluzione...
Marcello Sala - Marco Ferraguti - Emanuele Serrelli
Presenta Anna Alessandrello
This document contains definitions of key biology and genetics terms provided by a student named Beverley Sutton from Pistor Middle School. The definitions are simplified explanations intended for other students to understand. Some terms defined include adaptation, allele, asexual reproduction, cell, cell division, chromosome, DNA, dominant, evolve, gene, genotype, heterozygous, inherit, migrate, natural selection, offspring, phenotype, punnett square, recessive, sexual reproduction, species, and symbiosis.
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An ecosystem consists of all the organisms and physical environment that interact in a specific area. Early Greek philosophers made early observations on natural history and ecosystems. Concepts like food chains and species relationships were developed starting in the 1700s. The term "ecology" was coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866 to describe the interactions between organisms and their environment. Ecology became an important field in the 1960s and 1970s as the environmental movement grew.
The document traces the history and development of ecology from its early roots in the 18th century through present day. It discusses key figures like Carl Linnaeus, Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, and others and their contributions to establishing ecology as a recognized scientific discipline. Major developments included the establishment of biogeography, the ecosystem concept, succession theory, and recognition of humans as an ecological factor. Conservation efforts also stemmed from the growing field of ecology.
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This document provides an overview of the history and development of the theory of biological evolution. It describes early religious and philosophical explanations for life's diversity before discussing scientific theories. It outlines disproofs of spontaneous generation and early evolutionary thinkers like Lamarck. It then focuses on Charles Darwin and the key elements of his theory of evolution by natural selection, which he developed based on observations from his voyage on the HMS Beagle. Darwin proposed that life arises through descent with modification from common ancestors, and that natural selection acts on inherited variation between individuals in a population to drive adaptive evolution over many generations.
1) Ecology developed as a field of study over thousands of years, with early concepts found in ancient Hindu and Greek texts from 600 BC and 370 BC.
2) In the 18th and 19th centuries, key thinkers like Linnaeus, Darwin, and Humboldt made important contributions relating to biogeography, natural selection, and interactions between organisms and their environment.
3) The term "ecology" was coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866, and the field expanded in the 20th century with pioneering work by Shelford, Elton, Tansley, and Eugene Odum on concepts like food webs, ecosystems, and ecosystem ecology.
Social ecology examines the relationship between human societies and their ecological environment. It was coined by Murray Bookchin in 1964 and studies how elite classes manipulate natural resources for their own benefit at the cost of disadvantaged groups and the environment. Social ecology aims to promote conservation, sustainable development, reduce societal dependency on ecosystems, and create environmental awareness while addressing challenges from industrialization, development, population growth, and uncontrolled demands. It analyzes the interconnection between ecological infrastructure, economy, social structure, politics, and culture.
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The beauty of nature versus its utility:
The Environmental Challenge
Science and spirit have complementary beauty.
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1) Special creation theory proposes that life was created by a supernatural power.
2) Early experiments provided evidence that simple organic molecules could form from inorganic compounds.
3) Later, more complex organic molecules like amino acids were found to arise spontaneously from simpler precursors.
4) Modern hypotheses suggest life began through gradual chemical evolution, with self-replicating molecules like RNA emerging and eventually becoming enclosed in cell membranes.
Our understanding of photosynthesis has evolved over time. Early thinkers like Aristotle believed plants obtained nourishment from the soil and leaves provided shade. Jan van Helmont's willow tree experiment in 1643 showed that plant growth was due more to water than soil. Joseph Priestley's experiments in 1771 demonstrated that plants produce oxygen. Jan Ingenhousz discovered in 1779 that aquatic plants only produce oxygen in sunlight. Later, Melvin Calvin traced the chemical pathway of carbon in photosynthesis in 1948. Today we understand photosynthesis as the process by which plants use light, water and carbon dioxide to produce sugar and oxygen through a series of chemical reactions.
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-Einstein’s General Relativity (1916) frames modern cosmology.
-Big-Bang energetic beginning: interactive relationships of matter particles created our universe.
-Explains origin of 92 elements in the Periodic Table
- We are made of stardust.
- Symbiotic relations between cells led to the Cambrian explosion of complex and human life.
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“Each of us is as old as the universe and experiences our greater self in the larger story of the universe.” Thomas Berry.
Frederick Engels argues that recent scientific discoveries provide evidence for a materialist understanding of the universe. He cites three important discoveries: 1) Wöhler's synthesis of urea proved organic processes have inorganic causes. 2) Schwann and Schleiden's cell theory showed physiology is based on cells. 3) Darwin's theory of evolution demonstrated no difference between human and other life forms. These discoveries explained natural processes through scientific laws and unified science by integrating results. They also traced all aspects of nature back to natural causes, with the origin of life as the only remaining question.
Proposal for an “Anthropocene” Research Program, and its relationship with the “Cultural Evolution” program
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The Anthropocene defines Earth's most recent geologic time period as being human-influenced, or anthropogenic, based on overwhelming global evidence that atmospheric, geologic, hydrologic, biospheric and other earth system processes are now altered by humans.
* The word combines the root "anthropo", meaning "human" with the root "- cene", the standard suffix for "epoch" in geologic time.
* The Anthropocene is distinguished as a new period either after or within the Holocene, the current epoch, which began approximately 10,000 years ago (about 8000 BC) with the end of the last glacial period.
* Source: The Encyclopedia of Earth, cit. in www.anthropocene.info
AAAS meeting, 2013
http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2013/webprogram/Session5780.html
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Room 308 (Hynes Convention Center)
Emanuele Serrelli , University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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Emanuele Serrelli , University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
The talk addresses the Gaia hypothesis with a HPS (history and philosophy of science) approach, with particular attention to its relationships with symbiosis-oriented views of life and evolution. It looks at recent scientific literature which, although rarely explicitly, could be relevant to probe it empirically. However, if we accept the challenge of according Gaia with the strictest models of what is to be considered a scientific hypothesis, we find a family of different hypotheses, more or less demanding. Alternatively, Gaia can be considered an inspirational, pedagogical metaphor. With the complexity between these two extremes, the answer to the question - is the Gaia hypothesis science? - does not have a straightforward answer.
http://www.epistemologia.eu
Pievani T, Serrelli E (2012). From molecules to ecology and back: the hierarchy theory view of speciation. Paper at I Congreso de la Asociación Iberoamericana de Filosofía de la Biología, Valencia, Spain, November 28th-30th.
http://www.epistemologia.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=147:the-hierarchy-theory-view-of-speciation&catid=24&Itemid=143
The challenge of tree-thinking and network-thinkingEmanuele Serrelli
Serrelli E (2012). The challenge of tree-thinking and network-thinking: conceptual issues across biological and cultural domains. Paper at 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 14-18, 2012, San Francisco, CA.
see http://www.epistemologia.eu
This talk gives a reflexive outlook on the employment of tree and network thinking to conceptualize and model vertical descent and horizontal transmission of cultural traits. In biology, evolutionary trees are more than tools for researchers across disciplines: they are the main framework within which evidence for evolution is evaluated (Baum et al. 2005). However, several biologists have recognized "tree thinking" as a challenge for students (Gregory 2008, Meisel 2010), lay people (Baum, cit.), and scientists alike (O'Hara 1992), going against our spontaneous cognitive tendencies, e.g., reading along the tips, locating evolution only at nodes, projecting living species backwards to internal nodes. Moreover, common descent, represented by trees, is not the only way in which biological traits are shared: the ubiquity of phenomena like lateral gene transfer is increasing the need for network-based analyses, introducing the conceptual challenge of "network thinking" (Proulx et al. 2005), and the further complexity of conceiving trees and networks together. I focus on which strategies, used and developed in biology, can be implemented in anthropology to address cultural relatedness and common ancestry relationships.
Baum DA et al. (2005). The tree-thinking challenge. Science 310(5750):979-980.
Gregory TR (2008). Understanding evolutionary trees. Evolution: Education and Outreach 1(2):121-137.
Meisel RP (2010). Teaching tree-thinking to undergraduate biology students. Evolution: Education and Outreach 3(4):621-628.
O'Hara RJ (1992). Telling the tree: Narrative representation and the study of evolutionary history. Biology and Philosophy 7(2):p.135–160.
Proulx SR et al. (2005). Network thinking in ecology and evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20(6):345-53.
Emanuele Serrelli - Structures and functions in the evolution of moralityEmanuele Serrelli
Serrelli E (2012). Structures and functions in the evolution of morality. The Evolution of Morality: The Biology and Philosophy of Human Conscience, Erice, Sicily, IT, 17-22 June 2012.
http://www.evolutionofmorality.it/
http://www.epistemologia.eu
Mendelian population as a model, intended as a "stable target of explanation"Emanuele Serrelli
This document outlines ideas about mathematical models in population genetics. It provides examples of simple population genetics models involving alleles and their frequencies in a population. It discusses how models can describe mutation and selection over time. The document also discusses general ideas about mathematical models from a 1989 book. Models represent aspects of the real world in an abbreviated form by translating natural systems into mathematical systems. Successful models allow inferences in the mathematical system to predict behavior in the natural system.
Criticizing adaptive landscapes and the conflation between ecology and genealogyEmanuele Serrelli
Presentation by Emanuele Serrelli
ISHPSSB July 2011, Salt Lake City, Utah
http://www.conferences.utah.edu/ishpssb/index.html
Session: Hierarchy Theory of Evolution
Disentangling ecological vs. genealogical dimensions is a core task of hierarchy theory in evolutionary biology. As Eldredge repeatedly epitomized, organisms carry out (only) two distinct kinds of activities: they survive, and they reproduce. ! At the organismal level, the organism stays the same whether we consider it ecologically or genealogically - yet, differences can occur in what features we consider relevant, and what fitness measurement we use.
! At higher levels, the two dimensions diverge, realizing different systems. Reproductive (deme) may not coincide with ecological (avatar) population. Further upwards, along the ecological dimension, higher-level systems are grouped by energy- matter interconnection, whereas, along the genealogical dimension, higher taxa are assembled by relatedness.
! In Dobzhansky's (1937) use of the adaptive landscape visualization (Wright 1932), all living species are imagined as distributed on adaptive peaks which correspond to ecological niches in existing environments. Peaks are grouped forming genera and higher taxa (e.g., "feline", "carnivore" ranges), and geographic speciation is figured out - like adaptation - as movement on the landscape.
! In criticizing Dobzhansky's landscape, Eldredge wrote that species actually do not occupy ecological niches; demes don't, either; avatars do.
! I point out that neighborhood and movement need to be conceived separately in genealogical and ecological spaces. Indeed, ecology should be further split in at least two spaces: geographic and phenotypic/adaptive. Movement in one space may in fact result in stability in the other(s).
! I also comment on the adaptive landscape: technical limitations prevent it from being coherently used above the population level, even though as a metaphor. Finally, I emphasize the partiality of any landscape - based on the choice of relevant features and fitness components - and interpret partiality as the way of approaching complex multi- hierarchical structure in evolution.
Fabrizio Panebianco and Emanuele Serrelli: A Niche Construction Model with Re...Emanuele Serrelli
Short communication at
CISEPS Annual Lecture
May 6, 9:30am, University of Milano Bicocca, Milano (Italy), building U12,
Also with:
- Luca Cavalli Sforza "Critical periods of human evolution: interdisciplinarity helps for understanding"
- Marcus Feldman, "On Models of Social Transmission: Rates of Evolution and Patterns of Diversity".
Giovedì 12 Maggio, dalle 14.30 alle 16.30
Aula Cappellina, Liceo Scientifico Statale “Paolo Giovio”, Via Pasquale Paoli 28, Como
“Evoluzione: livelli di tempo, nello spazio”
Relazione all’interno della giornata conclusiva della rassegna “Il tempo nelle scienze e nella storia”, organizzata da Centro Filippo Buonarroti, Via Treviso 6, Milano
Emanuele Serrelli - Lectures - Evolutionary Biology Class, University of MilanEmanuele Serrelli
Invited lectures on adaptive landscapes in evolutionary biology. Evolutionary Biology Class, prof. Marco Ferraguti, Master Degree in Biology and Natural Sciences, University of Milano, March 28 & 30, 2011.
Landscape pictures with peaks and valleys have been present and influential in evolutionary biology for many decades. Let us try to orient ourselves in the “jungle” of landscape metaphors and models.
Emanuele Serrelli - Pitfalls and Strengths of Adaptation in Biology EducationEmanuele Serrelli
This document discusses how philosophy of science can help biology education by addressing conceptual issues and developing skills. It analyzes the concept of adaptation, showing how its meaning has changed over time and split into multiple concepts. While history of science can help dispel myths about science, philosophy can further improve scientific definitions and the "defining activity" skill. Developing skills like evaluation and criticism of definitions through explicit philosophy of science discussions may increase students' understanding and appreciation of science.
Adaptive landscapes: A case study of metaphors, models, and synthesis in evol...Emanuele Serrelli
TALK
Emanuele Serrelli Final discussion, XXIII cycle, January 17th 2011 PhD School in Human Sciences University of Milano Bicocca Coordinator: prof. Ottavia Albanese Advisor: prof. Dietelmo Pievani
Adaptive landscapes: A case study of metaphors, models, and synthesis in evol...Emanuele Serrelli
Emanuele Serrelli
Final discussion, XXIII cycle, January 17th 2011
PhD School in Human Sciences
University of Milano Bicocca
Coordinator: prof. Ottavia Albanese
Advisor: prof. Dietelmo Pievani
Four young researhers from different disciplines and approaches are provoked by the question "Does Gregory Bateson have anything more to teach us?". They answer by taking move from different keywords in Bateson's vocabulary, from some quotations of Bateson's work, and from the story of how they came to know Bateson and his thought. We decided to write this multi-authored article most of all to document and share a nice interaction, one "thinking mind" triggered by the question about Bateson, teaching, and learning. We had the encounter with Bateson in common, but we never had the occasion before to talk in deep, being involved in different research fields although in the same Department. Bateson unites, Bateson divides, Bateson unites again: visions and ideas that have emerged here are not an absolute convergence. Bateson's thought itself would not allow that. Rather, here is a little "harmony of differences" in interpretations, perspectives, and meanings.
In the question about what more Bateson has to teach us, we chose to interpret the word "teach" in a non-transmissive, critical way: how does Bateson make us critical in the context where we work? What does he have to teach to us and to our research contexts?
Alessia Vitale takes move from the batesonian word "creature" to tell how Gregory Bateson's thought may be approached and understood only by considering man and his theory as part of the living world, so realizing one of Bateson's own messages, and moreover giving a lesson for our way of considering knowledge. Emanuele Serrelli discusses the relationship between map and territory, and the ambivalent oscillation between the two in all Bateson's work; in this movement Bateson teaches a scientific method, touching - according to Serrelli - on territories, not only maps. A different perspective is offered by Andrea Galimberti. Through the keyword "metaphor" he describes in another, maybe more "creatural" way the relationships between maps and territories, emphasizing the importance of hiding besides unveiling, where an excess of explanations ends up by killing any life history. Finally, Andrée Bella looks at knowing through the batesonian term "grace", which relates to ancient concepts like "art", and opposes the tendency of "conscious purpose" to separate and damage reality. So, together with Bateson, Bella invites to reconnect knowledge with the whole person, origin, and the vast ensemble of "the pattern which connects".
How to Add Chatter in the odoo 17 ERP ModuleCeline George
In Odoo, the chatter is like a chat tool that helps you work together on records. You can leave notes and track things, making it easier to talk with your team and partners. Inside chatter, all communication history, activity, and changes will be displayed.
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
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A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
it describes the bony anatomy including the femoral head , acetabulum, labrum . also discusses the capsule , ligaments . muscle that act on the hip joint and the range of motion are outlined. factors affecting hip joint stability and weight transmission through the joint are summarized.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
This presentation was provided by Steph Pollock of The American Psychological Association’s Journals Program, and Damita Snow, of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), for the initial session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session One: 'Setting Expectations: a DEIA Primer,' was held June 6, 2024.
MATATAG CURRICULUM: ASSESSING THE READINESS OF ELEM. PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS I...NelTorrente
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Executive Directors Chat Leveraging AI for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
2013.05.29 ecological and genealogical patterns
1. Integration between ecological and genealogical patterns:
Where are we?
Emanuele Serrelli
“Riccardo Massa” Department of Human Sciences - University of Milano Bicocca, ITALY
Lisbon Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab - Universidade de Lisboa, PORTUGAL
emanuele.serrelli@unimib.it
http://www.epistemologia.eu
1
2. Integration between ecological and genealogical patterns:
Where are we?
Emanuele Serrelli
“Riccardo Massa” Department of Human Sciences - University of Milano Bicocca, ITALY
Lisbon Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab - Universidade de Lisboa, PORTUGAL
emanuele.serrelli@unimib.it
http://www.epistemologia.eu
1
Ecological patterns are the ones that
can be captured by following physical
and chemical flows and cycles.
3. Integration between ecological and genealogical patterns:
Where are we?
Emanuele Serrelli
“Riccardo Massa” Department of Human Sciences - University of Milano Bicocca, ITALY
Lisbon Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab - Universidade de Lisboa, PORTUGAL
emanuele.serrelli@unimib.it
http://www.epistemologia.eu
1
Ecological patterns are the ones that
can be captured by following physical
and chemical flows and cycles.
Genealogical patterns are those that
can be followed and fully captured by
following 'bloodlines', related lineages,
and their common ancestry.
4. 2
Ecological patterns are the ones that
can be captured by following physical
and chemical flows and cycles.
Genealogical patterns are those that
can be followed and fully captured by
following 'bloodlines', related lineages,
and their common ancestry.
5. 3
1850 1900 1950 2000 2050
The sloshing bucket
2003
Odling-Smee: niche construction
1988
Evolutionary Ecology journal
1987
Unfinished Synthesis
1985
Vrba: turnover pulse
1980
van Valen: Red Queen hp
1973
Punctuated Equilibria
1972
Lovelock, birth of Earth System
Science
1967 – 1974
Hutchinson: ecological stage
and evolutionary play
1965
Orians
1962
Hutchinson & MacArthur
1959
Odum
1953
David Lack
1944
Tansley: concept of ecosystem
1935
Modern Synthesis
1930 – 1930
Lotka
1922
neo-Darwinian Synthesis
1910 – 1930
Warming, Schimper, Drude
1890 – 1900
Darwin's worms
1881
Haeckel
1866
Origin
1859
“By ecology we mean the body of
knowledge concerning the economy of
nature, the total relations of the animal to
both its inorganic and organic environment;
including its friendly and inimical relations
with those animals and plants with which it
comes into contact. In a word, all the
complex relationships referred to as the
struggle for existence”
6. 4
1850 1900 1950 2000 2050
The sloshing bucket
2003
Odling-Smee: niche construction
1988
Evolutionary Ecology journal
1987
Unfinished Synthesis
1985
Vrba: turnover pulse
1980
van Valen: Red Queen hp
1973
Punctuated Equilibria
1972
Lovelock, birth of Earth System
Science
1967 – 1974
Hutchinson: ecological stage
and evolutionary play
1965
Orians
1962
Hutchinson & MacArthur
1959
Odum
1953
David Lack
1944
Tansley: concept of ecosystem
1935
Modern Synthesis
1930 – 1930
Lotka
1922
neo-Darwinian Synthesis
1910 – 1930
Warming, Schimper, Drude
1890 – 1900
Darwin's worms
1881
Haeckel
1866
Origin
1859
7. 5
1850 1900 1950 2000 2050
The sloshing bucket
2003
Odling-Smee: niche construction
1988
Evolutionary Ecology journal
1987
Unfinished Synthesis
1985
Vrba: turnover pulse
1980
van Valen: Red Queen hp
1973
Punctuated Equilibria
1972
Lovelock, birth of Earth System
Science
1967 – 1974
Hutchinson: ecological stage
and evolutionary play
1965
Orians
1962
Hutchinson & MacArthur
1959
Odum
1953
David Lack
1944
Tansley: concept of ecosystem
1935
Modern Synthesis
1930 – 1930
Lotka
1922
neo-Darwinian Synthesis
1910 – 1930
Warming, Schimper, Drude
1890 – 1900
Darwin's worms
1881
Haeckel
1866
Origin
1859
8. 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050
The sloshing bucket
2003
Odling-Smee: niche construction
1988
Evolutionary Ecology journal
1987
Unfinished Synthesis
1985
Vrba: turnover pulse
1980
van Valen: Red Queen hp
1973
Punctuated Equilibria
1972
Lovelock, birth of Earth System
Science
1967 – 1974
Hutchinson: ecological stage
and evolutionary play
1965
Orians
1962
Hutchinson & MacArthur
1959
Odum
1953
David Lack
1944
Tansley: concept of ecosystem
1935
Modern Synthesis
1930 – 1930
Lotka
1922
neo-Darwinian Synthesis
1910 – 1930
Warming, Schimper, Drude
1890 – 1900
Darwin's worms
1881
Haeckel
1866
Origin
1859
6
Population genetics “models”
4
Loci, alleles,
frequencies
zygotes
mutation
selection
?
complication
intractability
Hardy-Weinberg eq.
9. 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050
The sloshing bucket
2003
Odling-Smee: niche construction
1988
Evolutionary Ecology journal
1987
Unfinished Synthesis
1985
Vrba: turnover pulse
1980
van Valen: Red Queen hp
1973
Punctuated Equilibria
1972
Lovelock, birth of Earth System
Science
1967 – 1974
Hutchinson: ecological stage
and evolutionary play
1965
Orians
1962
Hutchinson & MacArthur
1959
Odum
1953
David Lack
1944
Tansley: concept of ecosystem
1935
Modern Synthesis
1930 – 1930
Lotka
1922
neo-Darwinian Synthesis
1910 – 1930
Warming, Schimper, Drude
1890 – 1900
Darwin's worms
1881
Haeckel
1866
Origin
1859
7
10. 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050
The sloshing bucket
2003
Odling-Smee: niche construction
1988
Evolutionary Ecology journal
1987
Unfinished Synthesis
1985
Vrba: turnover pulse
1980
van Valen: Red Queen hp
1973
Punctuated Equilibria
1972
Lovelock, birth of Earth System
Science
1967 – 1974
Hutchinson: ecological stage
and evolutionary play
1965
Orians
1962
Hutchinson & MacArthur
1959
Odum
1953
David Lack
1944
Tansley: concept of ecosystem
1935
Modern Synthesis
1930 – 1930
Lotka
1922
neo-Darwinian Synthesis
1910 – 1930
Warming, Schimper, Drude
1890 – 1900
Darwin's worms
1881
Haeckel
1866
Origin
1859
8
11. 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050
The sloshing bucket
2003
Odling-Smee: niche construction
1988
Evolutionary Ecology journal
1987
Unfinished Synthesis
1985
Vrba: turnover pulse
1980
van Valen: Red Queen hp
1973
Punctuated Equilibria
1972
Lovelock, birth of Earth System
Science
1967 – 1974
Hutchinson: ecological stage
and evolutionary play
1965
Orians
1962
Hutchinson & MacArthur
1959
Odum
1953
David Lack
1944
Tansley: concept of ecosystem
1935
Modern Synthesis
1930 – 1930
Lotka
1922
neo-Darwinian Synthesis
1910 – 1930
Warming, Schimper, Drude
1890 – 1900
Darwin's worms
1881
Haeckel
1866
Origin
1859
8
12. 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050
The sloshing bucket
2003
Odling-Smee: niche construction
1988
Evolutionary Ecology journal
1987
Unfinished Synthesis
1985
Vrba: turnover pulse
1980
van Valen: Red Queen hp
1973
Punctuated Equilibria
1972
Lovelock, birth of Earth System
Science
1967 – 1974
Hutchinson: ecological stage
and evolutionary play
1965
Orians
1962
Hutchinson & MacArthur
1959
Odum
1953
David Lack
1944
Tansley: concept of ecosystem
1935
Modern Synthesis
1930 – 1930
Lotka
1922
neo-Darwinian Synthesis
1910 – 1930
Warming, Schimper, Drude
1890 – 1900
Darwin's worms
1881
Haeckel
1866
Origin
1859
9
13. 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050
The sloshing bucket
2003
Odling-Smee: niche construction
1988
Evolutionary Ecology journal
1987
Unfinished Synthesis
1985
Vrba: turnover pulse
1980
van Valen: Red Queen hp
1973
Punctuated Equilibria
1972
Lovelock, birth of Earth System
Science
1967 – 1974
Hutchinson: ecological stage
and evolutionary play
1965
Orians
1962
Hutchinson & MacArthur
1959
Odum
1953
David Lack
1944
Tansley: concept of ecosystem
1935
Modern Synthesis
1930 – 1930
Lotka
1922
neo-Darwinian Synthesis
1910 – 1930
Warming, Schimper, Drude
1890 – 1900
Darwin's worms
1881
Haeckel
1866
Origin
1859
9
“It is becoming increasingly apparent that a complete answer to any question
should deal with physiological, adaptational and evolutionary aspects of the
problem. The evolutionary process of becoming yields the most profound
understanding of biological systems at all levels of organization. The non-
evolutionary answer to the question of why an animal is abundant in some
parts of its range and rare in others is of necessity incomplete”
14. 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050
The sloshing bucket
2003
Odling-Smee: niche construction
1988
Evolutionary Ecology journal
1987
Unfinished Synthesis
1985
Vrba: turnover pulse
1980
van Valen: Red Queen hp
1973
Punctuated Equilibria
1972
Lovelock, birth of Earth System
Science
1967 – 1974
Hutchinson: ecological stage
and evolutionary play
1965
Orians
1962
Hutchinson & MacArthur
1959
Odum
1953
David Lack
1944
Tansley: concept of ecosystem
1935
Modern Synthesis
1930 – 1930
Lotka
1922
neo-Darwinian Synthesis
1910 – 1930
Warming, Schimper, Drude
1890 – 1900
Darwin's worms
1881
Haeckel
1866
Origin
1859
9
“It is becoming increasingly apparent that a complete answer to any question
should deal with physiological, adaptational and evolutionary aspects of the
problem. The evolutionary process of becoming yields the most profound
understanding of biological systems at all levels of organization. The non-
evolutionary answer to the question of why an animal is abundant in some
parts of its range and rare in others is of necessity incomplete”
"Ecology […] has its descriptive generalizations, such as the principle of
competitive exclusion, but as in other fields, evolution would seem to be
the only real theory of ecology today. Even if one strongly believes in the
action of natural selection it is exceedingly difficult, as Darwin pointed
out, to keep it always firmly in mind. Neglect of natural selection in
ecological thinking is, therefore, understandable though regretable.
However, its deliberate exclusion in these years following the Darwin
centennial would seem to be exceedingly unwise"
15. 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050
The sloshing bucket
2003
Odling-Smee: niche construction
1988
Evolutionary Ecology journal
1987
Unfinished Synthesis
1985
Vrba: turnover pulse
1980
van Valen: Red Queen hp
1973
Punctuated Equilibria
1972
Lovelock, birth of Earth System
Science
1967 – 1974
Hutchinson: ecological stage
and evolutionary play
1965
Orians
1962
Hutchinson & MacArthur
1959
Odum
1953
David Lack
1944
Tansley: concept of ecosystem
1935
Modern Synthesis
1930 – 1930
Lotka
1922
neo-Darwinian Synthesis
1910 – 1930
Warming, Schimper, Drude
1890 – 1900
Darwin's worms
1881
Haeckel
1866
Origin
1859
10
16. 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050
The sloshing bucket
2003
Odling-Smee: niche construction
1988
Evolutionary Ecology journal
1987
Unfinished Synthesis
1985
Vrba: turnover pulse
1980
van Valen: Red Queen hp
1973
Punctuated Equilibria
1972
Lovelock, birth of Earth System
Science
1967 – 1974
Hutchinson: ecological stage
and evolutionary play
1965
Orians
1962
Hutchinson & MacArthur
1959
Odum
1953
David Lack
1944
Tansley: concept of ecosystem
1935
Modern Synthesis
1930 – 1930
Lotka
1922
neo-Darwinian Synthesis
1910 – 1930
Warming, Schimper, Drude
1890 – 1900
Darwin's worms
1881
Haeckel
1866
Origin
1859
11
18. 13
deMenocal, P.B., 2004.African climate change and faunal evolution during the Pliocene–Pleistocene.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 220(1-2), pp.3–24.
19. 14
80-60 Kya
Roger Lewin (1996), Le origini dell’uomo moderno, Zanichelli, p. 121 // Bernard Wood 2008
20. 15
Hierarchy Theory of evolution
Eldredge 1986
“organisms seem to be both energy conversion machines and
reproducing ‘packages’ of genetic information. As such they are
integrated simultaneously into two largely separate, but
interacting kinds of general systems” (1986, p. 351)
21. Eldredge 2003
Niles Eldredge (2008) , “Hierarchies and the Sloshing Bucket: Toward the Unification of Evolutionary Biology”, in Evo Edu Outreach 1 pp. 10–15.
22. Eldredge 2003
Niles Eldredge (2008) , “Hierarchies and the Sloshing Bucket: Toward the Unification of Evolutionary Biology”, in Evo Edu Outreach 1 pp. 10–15.
23. Eldredge 2003
Niles Eldredge (2008) , “Hierarchies and the Sloshing Bucket: Toward the Unification of Evolutionary Biology”, in Evo Edu Outreach 1 pp. 10–15.
24. Eldredge 2003
Niles Eldredge (2008) , “Hierarchies and the Sloshing Bucket: Toward the Unification of Evolutionary Biology”, in Evo Edu Outreach 1 pp. 10–15.
25. Niles Eldredge (2008) , “Hierarchies and the Sloshing Bucket: Toward the Unification of Evolutionary Biology”, in Evo Edu Outreach 1 pp. 10–15.
26. 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050
The sloshing bucket
2003
Odling-Smee: niche construction
1988
Evolutionary Ecology journal
1987
Unfinished Synthesis
1985
Vrba: turnover pulse
1980
van Valen: Red Queen hp
1973
Punctuated Equilibria
1972
Lovelock, birth of Earth System
Science
1967 – 1974
Hutchinson: ecological stage
and evolutionary play
1965
Orians
1962
Hutchinson & MacArthur
1959
Odum
1953
David Lack
1944
Tansley: concept of ecosystem
1935
Modern Synthesis
1930 – 1930
Lotka
1922
neo-Darwinian Synthesis
1910 – 1930
Warming, Schimper, Drude
1890 – 1900
Darwin's worms
1881
Haeckel
1866
Origin
1859
18
27. 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050
The sloshing bucket
2003
Odling-Smee: niche construction
1988
Evolutionary Ecology journal
1987
Unfinished Synthesis
1985
Vrba: turnover pulse
1980
van Valen: Red Queen hp
1973
Punctuated Equilibria
1972
Lovelock, birth of Earth System
Science
1967 – 1974
Hutchinson: ecological stage
and evolutionary play
1965
Orians
1962
Hutchinson & MacArthur
1959
Odum
1953
David Lack
1944
Tansley: concept of ecosystem
1935
Modern Synthesis
1930 – 1930
Lotka
1922
neo-Darwinian Synthesis
1910 – 1930
Warming, Schimper, Drude
1890 – 1900
Darwin's worms
1881
Haeckel
1866
Origin
1859
18
28. 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050
The sloshing bucket
2003
Odling-Smee: niche construction
1988
Evolutionary Ecology journal
1987
Unfinished Synthesis
1985
Vrba: turnover pulse
1980
van Valen: Red Queen hp
1973
Punctuated Equilibria
1972
Lovelock, birth of Earth System
Science
1967 – 1974
Hutchinson: ecological stage
and evolutionary play
1965
Orians
1962
Hutchinson & MacArthur
1959
Odum
1953
David Lack
1944
Tansley: concept of ecosystem
1935
Modern Synthesis
1930 – 1930
Lotka
1922
neo-Darwinian Synthesis
1910 – 1930
Warming, Schimper, Drude
1890 – 1900
Darwin's worms
1881
Haeckel
1866
Origin
1859
18
29. 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050
The sloshing bucket
2003
Odling-Smee: niche construction
1988
Evolutionary Ecology journal
1987
Unfinished Synthesis
1985
Vrba: turnover pulse
1980
van Valen: Red Queen hp
1973
Punctuated Equilibria
1972
Lovelock, birth of Earth System
Science
1967 – 1974
Hutchinson: ecological stage
and evolutionary play
1965
Orians
1962
Hutchinson & MacArthur
1959
Odum
1953
David Lack
1944
Tansley: concept of ecosystem
1935
Modern Synthesis
1930 – 1930
Lotka
1922
neo-Darwinian Synthesis
1910 – 1930
Warming, Schimper, Drude
1890 – 1900
Darwin's worms
1881
Haeckel
1866
Origin
1859
19
4
mutation
selection
?
complication
intractability
30. Kylafis, G. & Loreau, M., 2008. Ecological and evolutionary consequences of niche
construction for its agent. Ecology letters, 11(10), pp.1072–81.
45. Integration between ecological and genealogical patterns:
Where are we?
25
Patterns in the natural world are extremely important. [...]
They pose both the questions and the answers that
scientists formulate as they seek to describe the world [...].
Science is a search for resonance between mind and natural
pattern as we try to answer these questions. (Eldredge 1999,
pp. 4-5)
46. Integration between ecological and genealogical patterns:
Where are we?
25
Patterns in the natural world are extremely important. [...]
They pose both the questions and the answers that
scientists formulate as they seek to describe the world [...].
Science is a search for resonance between mind and natural
pattern as we try to answer these questions. (Eldredge 1999,
pp. 4-5)
It is this two-way street [...] that together form the
resonance between mind and material nature that is
the heart and soul of science. The search for more
accurate depictions and explanations of phenomena
already perceived is where most of the serious day-
to-day work of science lies. But it is in the learning of
new ways to see phenomena that true novelty and
creativity come in. Both are vital and in many ways
themselves inseparable. Both involve wrestling with
patterns in nature-the explanation of agreed-upon
pattern, and the search for new ways of seeing new
patterns (Eldredge, cit., p. 16).
47. Integration between ecological and genealogical patterns:
Where are we?
Emanuele Serrelli
“Riccardo Massa” Department of Human Sciences - University of Milano Bicocca, ITALY
Lisbon Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab - Universidade de Lisboa, PORTUGAL
emanuele.serrelli@unimib.it
http://www.epistemologia.eu
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