#Колонки для Комп'ютерри
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"Species Preservation Instinct"? Column in KomputerraOnline #62
Humans are capable of acting in the interests of humanity, and it seems to us that a wolf is capable of acting for the good of all wolves (wolfdom?), a starling — in the name of starlingdom, and a shark …
Beast-Pegasopher. Column in ComputerreOnline #61
Based on the assumption of evolutionary economy, we reconstruct its pathways using molecular data. And we become convinced of the whimsical, uneconomical course of changes in organismal structure.
Spatial Hearing. Column in KompyuterraOnline #60
To feel happy and whole, one must at least occasionally touch one's own origins. A good way to do this is to sleep peacefully in the forest. (A column connected to a trip, the photo report for which is posted …
A Trip from the Invisible Foot. Column in KomputerraOnline #59
The Invisible Hand operates in systems whose goals are aligned with the goals of their subsystems. The Invisible Foot manifests where the optimisation of subsystems conflicts with the optimisation of the system.
On Dislike of Football. Column in KomputerraOnline #58
Children compare toy cars, dolls, and new clothes. The wealthy compare jewels, supercars, yachts, and palaces. Oligarchs compare football clubs: teams of living toys.
On the breadth of the horizon. Column in KompyuterrOnline #57
The specificity of behavior management characteristic of our species includes not only the use of an advanced model of reality. This model expands the horizons of planning as broadly as possible.
The Patient's Strategy. Column in KomputerraOnline #56
On the boundary between psychic and physical reality lies the zone of psychosomatics. Psychic reality is more active, and it can reshape physiology and even anatomy to conform to itself.
Frogs. Early‑maturing or late‑maturing. Column in КомпьютерреOnline #55
Long‑lived toads maximize the number of offspring with a long life expectancy in mind, whereas fast‑maturing ones do so for the coming years. Their difference is a consequence of differing planning horizons.
The miracle of self-reflection. Column in ComputerreOnline #54
And we, as well as other animals, create mental models of processes occurring beyond ourselves. Both we and they incorporated Newton’s laws into their models long before these laws were expressed in mathematical form.
The miracles of self-deception. Column in ComputerreOnline #53
If I were doing this for myself, it would be immoral. But for ... (insert the appropriate: Science, Democracy, Patriotism, Family Values, Faith, the State, the Nation, Freedom, the Good of the Company, the People…) I must do it.
Guests from the Past. Column in KomputerraOnline #52
We are more anachronistic than Rip Van Winkle; we were shaped by long-vanished epochs. Our biological foundation has remained unchanged, while our way of life and our social roles have changed fundamentally.
Supports of Altruism. Column in ComputerreOnline #51
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Altruism and Simpson's paradox. Column in ComputerreOnline #50
In different conditions, the greatest success is provided by different behavioral forms – sometimes purely selfish, sometimes antagonistic, but quite often also altruistic.
“Ecological problems” for university and school students. Column in ComputerreOnline #49
Night, in the distance trout splash. Across the meadow moves a formation of ninety thousand tadpoles, devouring insects. Toward us, under the cover of darkness, a thousand "ecologists" march.
The wonders of sexual reproduction. Column in ComputerreOnline #48
The mechanisms of gene transmission and alteration differ among asexual species, the parasexual Penicillium, humans and other animals with a typical sexual cycle, and the truly extraordinary Pushtun frogs
When Does Selection Become Ineffective? Column in KomputerraOnline #47
When the fitness of an individual is influenced by the variation of many genes, and especially when the effect of some genes depends on the state of others, the rate of evolution under the Modern Synthesis model drops sharply.
The paradox of accelerated evolution. Column in ComputerreOnline #46
Could organisms arise in a fluctuating environment whose efficiency of producing new adaptations would be reduced—since they would inevitably be outcompeted by those that evolved more rapidly?
The Difficulties of Career Guidance. Column in KomputerraOnline #45
The most important thing in education is not the diploma, not the status that allows one to hold a certain position, not a specific set of knowledge. The most important thing is the difficult-to-formalise transformation of a person.
Three Syntheses in Evolutionary Biology. Column in KompyuterraOnline #44
Many components of the Third Synthesis in evolutionary biology have already been developed. What remains is to isolate, from the particulars of circumstance, the primary signal reflecting the mechanism of life's development.
Surrogates of environmental protection. Column in ComputerreOnline #43
When consumers of “organic” products and other “bio‑food” convince themselves that they are saving the planet, they merely waste the soulful energy that could have led to some positive changes on empty toys.