Human adaptability

Biology of Human Adaptability

Is there a real need for another general textbook on invertebrate zoology? I would say no. Indeed, to begin with, there is little scope for imagination in this kind of endeavor since there already exist numerous volumes saying much the same thing about essentially the same organisms. The text in general is adequate in its presentation of the various phyla and each chapter begins with a useful s...

Ewiro1enwial Adaptability Elvirolmental Adaptability

in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of City Planning. This thesis has two principal objectives. Firstly it attempts to measure the environment, defined by activity and space, to see how it changes and how it is formed. The rationale for this search is that unless we obtain this information we cannot tell where maladjusted activity and space relationships exist, an...

Influence of age on adaptability of human mastication.

The objective of this work was to study the influence of age on the ability of subjects to adapt mastication to changes in the hardness of foods. The study was carried out on 67 volunteers aged from 25 to 75 yr (29 males, 38 females) who had complete healthy dentitions. Surface electromyograms of the left and right masseter and temporalis muscles were recorded simultaneously with jaw movements ...

Reducing Human Design and Increasing Adaptability in Evolutionary Robotics

Does Social/Cultural Learning Increase Human Adaptability? Rogers’ Question Revisited

It is often taken for granted that social/cultural learning increases human adaptability, because it allows us to acquire useful information without costly individual learning by trial and error. Rogers (1988) challenged this common view by a simple analytic model. Assuming a “cultural” population composed of individual learners engaging in costly information search and imitators who just copy ...