Posts Tagged ‘Rimmon Lavi’
Enhancing Search Engines: Compensation for Evolutional Sturdiness
November 23rd, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
Guest post by Rimmon Lavi, Social Psychologist. Article on web search by the evolution of human kind point of view.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin. Serious scientists and philosophers alike acknowledge the importance of the theory of evolution for the understanding of life. They praise Darwin’s clear and concise model, whose validity has been confirmed by the genetic and biochemical discoveries made over the last 60 years.
But this year also marks 200 years since the publication of J.B. Lamarck’s Zoological Philosophy. Over the last two decades, we have seen renewed interest in complex evolutionary processes outside the genes. These epigenetic processes neither modify genetic heritage nor create new species or organisms, but they do respond much more rapidly to changes in environmental conditions. The results of these epigenetic processes also transfer through the generations, as assumed by Lamarck’s theory of evolution, without confuting Darwin’s model of genetic evolution, which is based only on natural selection among accidental mutations.
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