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Evolution: Evolution is the process by which populations of living organisms change over generations. It is driven by natural selection, which is the process by which organisms with traits that are better suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce. Over time, this can lead to the emergence of new species. See also Selection, Mutation, Species, Survival, Fitness, Darwinism.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Steven Pinker on Evolution - Dictionary of Arguments

I 21
Wheel/Evolution/Pinker: wheel works only together with street - this was created by evolution because landscape did not arise through evolution.
Legs are better for the natural world.
>Inventions/Discoveries
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Problem: software is more complicated.
>Software.
I 37
Evolution/Pinker: Humans do not have to have the same objectives as the evolution - (to propagate genes).
>Goals, >Genes.
I 61
Evolution/Genes/Gould: Problem: The own body does not survive - Dawkins: but the quality of the selected bodies.
Ultimately only the genes themselves.
Dawkins: People do not spread genes but genes are selfish. - But selfish genes do not create selfish people, like a blueprint does not produce a blue house.
>Dawkins, >Body.
I 637
Evolution/Tooby/Cosmides: the selection favors characteristics that increase the average fitness - the loss of genes by death is compensated by the survivors.
>Tooby/Cosmides.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Pi I
St. Pinker
How the Mind Works, New York 1997
German Edition:
Wie das Denken im Kopf entsteht München 1998


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