Evolution, sex and ideology

ideology and dubbing: domestication of dialects

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Believing in Economic Theory: Sex, Lies, Evidence, Trust and Ideology

In many empirical studies, ideology significantly predicts political outcomes, even after controlling for interests. This may reflect ideology’s influence on descriptive beliefs about the workings of the economic world. We investigate these beliefs about supply and demand theory, using survey methods and an experimental demonstration. As expected, relatively liberal respondents have more skepti...

Stress, sex and evolution

genetics and you are bound to find phrases such as ‘stress reveals genetic variation’. The implication is that while many stresses have a slight effect on an ‘average’ organism, if the organism has a mutation then the stress can have greater impact. For bacteria this would be revealed in reduced growth. At the very least you would expect growth of mutated organisms to be inhibited by stress to ...

Free Will Ideology: Experiments, Evolution and Virtue Ethics

Sex, Mate Selection, and Evolution

Simulations of the evolution of populations of diploid organisms showed that mate selection strategies which selected for “good genes” and strategies based on assortative mating, confer a much higher average fitness and higher evolutionary stability to populations than random mating. This advantage was more conspicuous the more genes per organism were simulated and the more genes were involved ...