• Biological constraints are factors which make populations resistant to evolutionary change. One proposed definition of constraint is "A property of a...
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  • mechanics Primary constraint, secondary constraint, etc. in Hamiltonian mechanics Holonomic constraints, also called integrable constraints, (depending on...
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  • demon is a hypothetical organism that would result if there were no biological constraints on evolution. Such an organism would maximize all aspects of fitness...
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    nearly every animal that has been studied has been shown to have a "biological clock" that yields cycles of activity even when the animal is in constant...
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    are all influenced by physical constraints (i.e. air temperature, wind speed, and time of day) and biological constraints (i.e. moulting, age, and sex)...
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  • bone trophic hormones and mitotic stimulants in breast tissue. Biological constraints Evolutionary medicine Evolutionary physiology Trade-off Garland...
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    Search of Man. Konner, Melvin J (2002) [1982]. The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit (2nd ed.). New York: Times Books. Wikimedia...
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  • philosophical issues may be beyond human comprehension because of the biological constraints of our minds. Owen Flanagan noted in his 1991 book Science of the...
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  • natural selection over all other forces—such as genetic drift, and biological constraints—in shaping the historical, ecological, and structural influences...
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    limitations, such as vulnerability to aging, maximum life span and biological constraints on physical and cognitive ability. Attempts to "improve" themselves...
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  • Darwinian Demon, a hypothetical organism resulting from absence of biological constraints on evolution Daemon (classical mythology), a lesser deity or guiding...
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  • Architecture tradeoff analysis method Bias–variance tradeoff Biological constraints Carrier's constraint Cost-benefit analysis Detection error tradeoff Economy...
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  • Retrieved May 4, 2020. Konnor, Melvin (2003). The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit (2nd ed.). Henry Holt and Company. p. 428. Herron...
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  • Retrieved 2013-09-02. Konner, Melvin (2002). The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit. New York: Times Books. p. 501. ISBN 0-7167-4602-6...
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  • ISBN 978-0-674-00633-1. Konner, Melvin (2003). The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit. New York: Henry Holt and Co. p. 501. ISBN 978-0-8050-7279-2...
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    aspects. The latter two factors are important sources of biological constraints; both acknowledging that both history and constructional principles...
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    Male (redirect from Biological male)
    There is a good argument that this pattern was driven by the physical constraints on the mechanisms by which two gametes get together as required for sexual...
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  • neighbor in time. This rule has gained popularity as it considers the biological constraints of an animal, as well as its orientation in space. Local Crowded...
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  • reproductive opportunities were limited by social, environmental, and biological constraints. A strong sex drive would historically have conferred fitness advantages...
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    population of neurons (typically containing multiple neural circuits). Biological neural networks are studied to understand the organization and functioning...
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  • metaphysics of sex and gender, but raises concerns about the role of biological constraints in the construction of sex. She proposes a “conferralist” framework...
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    ISBN 978-0670032440 Konner, Melvin J. (2002) The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit, 2nd ed. (original 1982) New York: Times Books...
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    limitations, such as vulnerability to aging, maximum life span and biological constraints on physical and cognitive ability. Attempts to "improve" themselves...
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    locomotion. These disadvantages suggest that, even barring the biological constraints discussed above, the absence of wheels in multicellular life may...
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    Efficient coding hypothesis (category Biological hypotheses)
    statistics of the natural images used, while considering noise and biological constraints. They then compared the actual information transmission as observed...
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  • "Cerebral organization for language in deaf and hearing subjects: biological constraints and effects of experience". Proceedings of the National Academy...
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    Female (redirect from Biological females)
    anisogamy. There is an argument that this pattern was driven by the physical constraints on the mechanisms by which two gametes get together as required for sexual...
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    evolution is considered to be guided by developmental constraints or by phylogenetic constraints, it is orthogenetic. Some researchers[who?] consider Croizat...
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    long periods of time. If it was sustained, a population might hit biological constraints such that it no longer responds to selection. However, it is possible...
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  • that use constraint algorithms, constraints are enforced using the method of Lagrange multipliers. Given a set of n linear (holonomic) constraints at the...
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