Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe

By T. Ray. Artificial Life, 2006

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computer Networks and Communications, Mechanical Engineering

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Early evolution of the Eukaryota (2015, background): “One popular extension of this view is that the actual pathways of these evolutionary transitions were relatively trivial: if one route had been blocked, any number of others would have been available, yielding more or less the same macroevolutionary result (Conway Morris 2003).”
CONVERGENCE, ADAPTATION, AND CONSTRAINT (2011, background): “Stayton (2008) demonstrated that rates of convergence can be quite high in circumstances in which clades are diversifying under the influence only of genetic drift (Fig.”
Plant defense syndromes. (2006, background): “…etc), then selection is a reasonable hypothesis for the differences between the close relatives; if multiple, phylogenetically independent congeneric pairs show similar suites of defensive traits and divergent ecologies, convergence can be invoked (Conway-Morris 2003, Fine et al. 2004).”
Key innovations, convergence, and success: macroevolutionary lessons from plant phylogeny (2005, background): “Conway Morris, S., and S. J. Gould.”
Free Energy, Value, and Attractors (2011, background): “One might conjecture that each solution (random attractor) corresponds to a different species, and that there may be a limited number of solutions as evidenced by convergent evolution [17].”
Adaptation and diversification on islands (2009, background): “Simon Conway Morris, responding to Stephen Jay Gould, argued that identical phenotypic outcomes should not be expected; instead, convergence at the level of functional niche filling should be expected, even if the way in which the niches are filled differs 61 .”
Evolutionary velocity with protein language models (2021, background): “Discussion 251 The degree to which evolution is predictable has been a longstanding debate [3], [4], 252 [44], [45].”
Convergence, contingency & morphospace (2012, background): “It takes an admirably cladistic perspective (something which marred Conway Morris 2003).”
The Evolution of Consciousness as a Planetary Imperative: An Integration of Integral Views (2007, unknown): “43 Several more recent interpretations point to a much fuller breadth in Darwin’s original writings (Conway Morris, 2007; Loye, 1998; Richards, 1992, 2002).”
Deus or Darwin: Randomness and belief in theories about the origin of life (2010, unknown): “These included Darwin's Theory of Evolution (TE; randomness, no agent), Intelligent Design (ID; order, agent), and a slightly modified version of TE developed by Conway-Morris (2005), which states that evolution is not a random process but is orderly and predictable (CMTE; order, no agent).”
The Charr Problem Revisited: Exceptional Phenotypic Plasticity Promotes Ecological Speciation in Postglacial Lakes (2010, background): “…of the evolutionary tape would give a different outcome every time) and conclude that islands provide excellent examples of both contingent and deterministic evolutionary patterns, the latter not necessarily in phenotype but often in the shape of functional niche filling (Conway Morris, 2003).”
Proterozoic photosynthesis – a critical review (2015, background): “All of the rest is demonstrably subject to evolutionary convergence and comes more or less for free (Conway Morris 2003).”
Adaptive Radiation, Ecological Opportunity, and Evolutionary Determinism (2010, background): “The relative importance of contingent and deterministic processes in shaping evolutionary diversiﬁcation has long been debated (e.g., Gould [1989, 2002] vs. Conway Morris [2003]).”