evolution - Concepts

Explore concepts tagged with "evolution"

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Concepts

Punctuated Equilibrium - Long periods of stability interrupted by brief periods of rapid, dramatic change.
Natural Selection - The mechanism of evolution whereby organisms with favorable traits are more likely to survive, reproduce, and pass those traits to future generations.
Idea Sex - The concept that innovation comes from ideas combining and reproducing like biological organisms.
Evolutionarily Stable Strategy - A strategy that, once adopted by most of a population, cannot be successfully invaded by any alternative strategy.
Memetics - The study of how ideas, behaviors, and cultural elements spread and evolve through imitation and transmission, analogous to genetic evolution.
Social Grooming - The behavior of building and maintaining social bonds through interaction, which in humans takes the form of conversation and language rather than physical grooming.
Red Queen Effect - You must keep running (adapting and improving) just to maintain your relative position in a competitive environment.
Evolutionary Game Theory - The application of game theory to populations of agents whose strategies evolve under selection pressure.
Hawk-Dove Game - A game-theory model of conflict over resources where aggressive and peaceful strategies must coexist in equilibrium.
Superorganism - A collection of individual organisms that function together as a single cohesive entity, exhibiting properties and behaviors beyond those of any individual member.