The Malthusian Principle and Natural Selection

Directionality Theory and the Entropic Principle of Natural Selection

Darwinian fitness describes the capacity of an organism to appropriate resources from the environment and to convert these resources into net-offspring production. Studies of competition between related types indicate that fitness is analytically described by evolutionary entropy, a statistical measure which is positively correlated with population stability, and describes the number of accessi...

Implications of the Reduction Principle for Cosmological Natural Selection

Smolin (1992) proposed that the fine-tuning problem for parameters of the Standard Model might be accounted for by a Darwinian process of universe reproduction — Cosmological Natural Selection (CNS) — in which black holes give rise to offspring universes with slightly altered parameters. The laws for variation and inheritance of the parameters are also subject to CNS if variation in transmissio...

Malthusian and Neo-Malthusian Theories/

Malthusian stagnation or Malthusian regeneration?

Empirical evidence questions fundamental concepts of the human population dynamics. One of the key conclusions of this study is that positive checks activate the efficient Malthusian regeneration mechanism, suggesting that the Epoch of Malthusian Stagnation, the first stage of growth claimed by the Demographic Transition Theory, did not exist.

The Malthusian theory.

These two quotations have appeared in recent medical literature. We have never seen a reference to Malthus in any of the current literature of the day, either lay or medical, which did not clearly show that the writer believed that the “Malthusian idea” is to destroy the fruitfulness of the marital relation, and which did not convict him of having never read one word of the writings of Malthus....