What makes a human group capable of group selection - including the role of...
Group selection can roughly be defined as a form of natural selection by which the fitness (probable reproductive success) of the group is maintained or enhanced, even at the cost of reduced fitness of...
View ArticleReconceptualizing group selection in terms of complex systems theory
Group selection can roughly be defined as a form of natural selection by which the fitness (probable reproductive success) of the group is maintained or enhanced, even at the cost of reduced fitness of...
View ArticleGroup selection does not require competition between groups
An important consequence of reconceptualising group selection in terms of complex systems theory is that group selection no longer requires competition between groups.this was a serious constraint on...
View ArticleWhy is group selection necessary? To solve the fundamental problem of life,...
The situation where group selection is a necessary explanation, is in order to solve the primary problem of life - which is the sustaining of life in the face of the tendency to mutational meltdown...
View ArticleThe Intellectual Elite are Sheeple, just like the masses - Reformulating the...
http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/why-are-so-many-clever-and-creative.html
View ArticleHow did Darwin know that evolution by natural selection was the real and only...
The answer is that he imagined it - obviously! He could not perceive it, therefore he must have imagined it - or, if you like, inferred it. Darwin did know that selection could adapt organisms, because...
View ArticleMetaphysics = Default Hypotheses - what needs explaining depends on prior...
The word metaphysics typically induces boredom or incomprehension, and most definitions seem unhelpful to most people - so what is it? Metaphysics can be thought of as the default hypothesis. The Null...
View ArticleThe Winnower - an inspiring model for science publishing
I have just published a small report in an online scientific journal called The Winnower...
View ArticleTranquillizing drugs are deceptively non-specific - they reduce complaints of...
Tranquillizing drugs are psychiatry's aspirin. They leave patients calm and quiet so they do not feel like complaining. While taking tranquillizers, the thought processes become simpler, new thoughts...
View ArticleMy new book - The Genius Famine - is now published
Edward Dutton & Bruce G Charlton. The Genius Famine: Why we need geniuses, Why they're dying out, Why we must rescue them. University of Buckingham Press: Buckingham, England....
View ArticleTen minutes of honest, focused thought from a knowledgeable and intelligent...
The title says it all. From my experience of some three decades, I am able to state with confidence and without the slightest exaggeration that very, very few researchers in the biosciences (e.g....
View ArticleA new metaphysics for biology - second draft of a paper 19 Feb 2016
A new metaphysics for biology: Reconceptualising the fundamental unsolved problems of the current paradigm. Hierarchical purposive entities direct evolutionary processes.Bruce G Charlton I will argue...
View ArticleBiology must have teleology (goal, purpose, direction) or else there can be...
http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/biology-without-teleology-excludes.html
View ArticleA teleological metaphysics for biology: Hierarchical, purposive, conscious,...
Pre-publication version posted online at The Winnower - where you can register to review it, or comment, before the final version is revised and...
View ArticleImagination as the organ of teleology, and a system of communication
Since everything is alive (to some, perhaps minimal, degree) - also conscious and cognitive; then everything has imagination and purpose works through imagination.Imagination is the mechanism of...
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On the structure and mechanism of teleology in evolution
On reflection, I think that teleology must be of the nature of following a blueprint plus instructions - in other words, teleology entails achieving what is already in existence conceptually.And...
View ArticleThe reality of ultimate teleology is something upon which all biologists...
Teleology (purpose) in biology is based on, requires, that reality be coherent, cooperative and complementary. This, in turn, requires that there is a single and unifying governing entity. In sum,...
View ArticleReconceptualizing the metaphysical basis of biology: a new definition based...
Charlton, BG. Reconceptualizing the metaphysical basis of biology: a new definition based on deistic teleology and an hierarchy of organizing entities(2016) The Winnower. DOI:...
View ArticleEvolution of Empathizing and Systemizing - BG Charlton & P Rosenkranz
Evolution of Empathizing and Systemizing: Empathizing as an aspect of social intelligence, systemizing as an evolutionarily later consequence of economic specializationBruce G Charlton*, Patrick...
View ArticleYour choice of five living geniuses?
http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/your-personal-choice-of-five-living.html
View ArticleThe Genius Famine by Ed Dutton and Bruce G Charlton
The Genius Famine is a book written from this blog. It is now freely available online at: http://geniusfamine.blogspot.co.uk/
View ArticleHuman 'Mouse Utopia' due to mutation accumulation - a summary
A microcosm of what went wrong with the industrial revolution: Calhoun’s Mouse Utopia experimentBruce G CharltonThe so-called ‘Mouse Utopia’ experiment was conducted from 1968 by John B...
View Article5 years since Woodley and I announced the first objective evidence of a rapid...
It was just over 5 years ago on this blog that Michael A Woodley and I published the discovery of a rapid and severe slowing of simple reaction times over the past century-plus; and the interpretation...
View ArticleCreativity as a Polarity of Order and Chaos
From the primary forces of Order and Chaos there can be no real creativity - not from either individually (Order leading to crystalline stasis; Chaos to a Brownian motion of homogeneous disorder).But...
View ArticleRegression to the mean and IQ
People say that the offspring of high IQ individuals will regress to the mean (average) of their 'population' - and they calculate this as if it were a mathematical law...But intelligence is a measure...
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