Darwinian fitness
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Darwinian fitness — fitness (def. 3). * * * Darwinian fitness (biology) The number of offspring of an individual that live to reproduce in the next generation • • • Main Entry: ↑fit … Useful english dictionary
Darwinian fitness — Darwinian fitness. См. Дарвиновская приспособленность. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) … Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.
Darwinian fitness — Darwinian fitness. = adaptive value (см.). (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) … Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.
fitness — /fit nis/, n. 1. health. 2. capability of the body of distributing inhaled oxygen to muscle tissue during increased physical effort. 3. Also called Darwinian fitness. Biol. a. the genetic contribution of an individual to the next generation s… … Universalium
Darwinian anthropology — describes an approach to anthropological analysis which employs various theories from darwinian evolutionary biology. Whilst there are a number of areas of research that can come under this broad description (Marks, 2004)[1] some specific… … Wikipedia
Darwinian literary studies — (aka Literary Darwinism) is a branch of literary criticism that studies literature in the context of evolution by means of natural selection, including gene culture coevolution. It represents an emerging trend of neo Darwinian thought in… … Wikipedia
Darwinian Happiness — Darwinian Happiness: Evolution As a Guide for Living and Understanding Human Behavior, ISBN 0 87850 159 2, is a 2002 book by the Norwegian biologist Bjørn Grinde from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. He argues that human emotions find… … Wikipedia
Darwinian puzzle — A Darwinian puzzle is a trait that appears to reduce the fitness of individuals that possess it. Such traits attract the attention of evolutionary biologists. The phrase Darwinian puzzle itself is rare and of unclear origin; it appears most often … Wikipedia
Darwinian Demon — A Darwinian Demon[1] is a hypothetical organism that can maximize all aspects of fitness simultaneously and would exist if the evolution of species was entirely unconstrained. Such organisms would reproduce directly after being born, produce… … Wikipedia
evolution — evolutional, adj. evolutionally, adv. /ev euh looh sheuhn/ or, esp. Brit., /ee veuh /, n. 1. any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane. 2. a product of such development; something… … Universalium
