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I started off as an Electrical Engineer but Physics won me over. Currently about to begin a Masters program and then hopefully kick on to get a PhD.
Here's a nice quote I came across, that rivals the one by Newton about smooth pebbles and pretty shells:
"The spectacle of the universe seems all the more grand and beautiful and worthy of its Author, when one considers that it is all derived from a small number of laws laid down most wisely." -Maupertuis, 1746
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Oct 25 |
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How is evolution possible in contemporary humans? Thanks for the answer. A follow-up: It's true that not all couples have the same number of children, but it seems like whether or not they have more children than average is no longer strongly dependent on biological fitness. Therefore, given that reproductive rates are fickle from one generation to the next (due to cultural factors), the signal would not have time to develop, right? It seems to me that there should be a persistent multi-generational selection pressure for the phenotype to develop, which is missing in the modern context. Maybe evolution is occurring, but significantly slower? |
