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    Neural Darwinism is a biological, and more specifically Darwinian and selectionist, approach to understanding global brain function, originally proposed...
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    theories. English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley coined the term Darwinism in April 1860. Darwinism subsequently referred to the specific concepts of natural...
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    Brain (1978), develops his theory of Neural Darwinism, which is built around the idea of plasticity in the neural network in response to the environment...
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  • Universal Darwinism, also known as generalized Darwinism, universal selection theory, or Darwinian metaphysics, is a variety of approaches that extend...
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    bike, but very few can accurately explain how they actually do so. Neural Darwinism is a large scale theory of brain function initially proposed in 1978...
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  • run the neural network. A biological process of synaptic pruning takes place in the brain of mammals during development (see also Neural Darwinism). A basic...
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    Emma Darwin (née Wedgwood; 2 May 1808 – 2 October 1896) was an English woman who was the wife and first cousin of Charles Darwin. They were married on...
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  • core with conscious thought involves a developing concept known as neural Darwinism. In this model, metastable interactions in the thalamocortical region...
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  • natural selection to create a non-reproducing pattern, as in neural Darwinism. Many aspects of neural development use overgrowth followed by pruning to a pattern...
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    Susannah Darwin (née Wedgwood, 3 January 1765 – 15 July 1817) was the wife of Robert Darwin, a wealthy doctor, and mother of naturalist Charles Darwin, and...
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  • guidance KCC2 Pioneer neuron Neural Darwinism Brain development timelines Malleable intelligence Role of cell adhesions in neural development "Neurological...
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  • theories of brain function including the general theory of mind and neural Darwinism. The concept of neuroplasticity is also central to theories of memory...
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  • 1328S. doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.1328. Seth, A. K. & Baars, B. J. 2005 Neural Darwinism and consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition 14, 140-168 Crick F...
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  • Tononi in their book A Universe of Consciousness. Embodied philosophy Neural Darwinism Primary consciousness Secondary consciousness Edelman, Gerald M.; Gally...
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    The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (category Books by Charles Darwin)
    section of the book, Darwin also turns to the questions of what after his death would be known as social Darwinism and eugenics. Darwin notes that, as had...
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  • such as neurologist and Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman believe that neural Darwinism is a more satisfactory explanation for the emergence of complex intelligence...
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    was a member of the influential Darwin–Wedgwood family. Darwin was born in Lichfield, the son of physician Erasmus Darwin and his first wife, Mary Howard...
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  • is noted for his theory of neuronal group selection, also known as Neural Darwinism, which posits that consciousness is the product of natural selection...
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    Sir Horace Darwin, KBE FRS (13 May 1851 – 22 September 1928) was an English engineer specializing in the design and manufacture of precision scientific...
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  • Human brain development timeline KCC2 Neurodevelopmental disorders Neural Darwinism Pre- and perinatal psychology Time lapse sequences of radial migration...
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    Charles Darwin Research Station (CDRS) (Spanish: Estación Científica Charles Darwin, ECCD) is a biological research station in Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz...
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    and evolutionary biology, including the hybrid of those two fields, neural Darwinism. He relates abrupt climate change to human evolution and more recently...
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  • works by Gerald Edelman on the workings of the brain which include Neural Darwinism and Bright Air, Brilliant Fire. It is divided into six sections: the...
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    consciousness Ideasthesia Mental energy Mind–body problem Mind at Large Neural Darwinism Philosophical zombie Philosophy of mind Problem of other minds Sentience...
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  • plainly radically incompatible with both neo-Darwinism and information processing theory. Whereas neo-Darwinism defines evolution in terms of changes in gene...
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  • physiological parameters. Consciousness Lucid dream Secondary consciousness Neural Darwinism Edelman, G. (2004). Wider than the sky: The phenomenal gift of consciousness:...
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  • 1000091. PMC 2386970. PMID 18551165. Edelman, Gerald M. (1993-02-01). "Neural Darwinism: Selection and reentrant signaling in higher brain function". Neuron...
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    Josiah Wedgwood (category Darwin–Wedgwood family)
    anti-slavery medallion. He was a member of the Darwin–Wedgwood family, and he was the grandfather of Charles and Emma Darwin. There were several related Wedgwood...
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  • put forward the theory of neuronal group selection, also known as neural Darwinism. Both books make a distinction between primary consciousness and higher-order...
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