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| Next-Gen Audi A8 Expected Evolutionary Styling | | 2008-08-14 10:25:00 | | A new Audi A8 is in the works but development is still in the early stages and so far only engineering test-mules wearing current-generation sheet metal have been sighted. This artist’s rendering shows a potential new look for the next A8, revealing a streamlined shape with new head and taillights and plenty of dramatic character lines.The chrome-laden front end of the current version will also likely be toned down somewhat for the next-generation, though the essential form of the car will remain more or less the same as most of the upgrades will be happening beneath the surface.The current Audi A8 has been on sale since 2003 and since that time has only received a minor facelift to keep it fresh alongside the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, Lexus LS and soon-to-be superseded BMW 7-series.However, the minor styling changes implemented during the recent facelift will have to soldier on for a few more years as the next-generation ‘D4’ A8 isn’t expected to make its international debut unti | | By: Autos Space | | |
| | The ethics of food-3: Evolutionary implications | | 2008-07-30 09:46:36 | | By Mano Singham
The theory of evolution has, of course, implications for the question of whether we should eat meat. One popular view of evolution lends support to the perceived superiority of humans over other species. This view sees evolution as a ladder-like hierarchy, rising ever upwards to higher and higher forms: as a sequence: amoebas→ sponges→ jellyfish→ flatworms→ trout→ frogs→ lizards→ dinosaurs→ anteaters→ monkeys→ chimpanzees→ Homo sapiens.
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| Crossed evolutionary signals? | | 2008-07-01 20:35:26 | | What do humans and single-celled choanoflagellates have in common? More than you'd think. New research into the choanoflagellate genome shows these ancient organisms have similar levels of proteins that cells in more complex organisms, including humans, use to communicate with each other.
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| | Evolutionary significance of Human Chromosome 2 | | 2008-06-16 22:32:00 | | All apes apart from man have 24 pairs of chromosomes. There is therefore a hypothesis that the common ancestor of all great apes had 24 pairs of chromosomes and that the fusion of two of the ancestor's chromosomes created chromosome 2 in humans. The evidence for this hypothesis is very strong.The EvidenceEvidence for fusing of two ancestral chromosomes to create human chromosome 2 and where there has been no fusion in other Great Apes is:1) The analogous chromosomes (2p and 2q) in the non-human great apes can be shown, when laid end to end, to create an identical banding structure to the human chromosome 2. 2) The remains of the sequence that the chromosome has on its ends (the telomere) is found in the middle of human chromosome 2 where the ancestral chromosomes fused. 3) the detail of this region (pre-telomeric sequence, telomeric sequence, reversed telomeric sequence, pre-telomeric sequence) is exactly what we would expect from a fusion. 4) this telomeric region is exactly where o | | By: Biosolution | | |
| | Next Chrysler 300 gets evolutionary exterior, "huge leap" in interior | | 2008-05-28 13:24:00 | | When the Chrysler 300 dropped on an unsuspecting public in 2004, it was all crisp edges and upright stance, with a bulldog face to help drive home the message of urgent thrust delivered by a reborn Hemi V8. Chrysler's got a refreshing in the pipeline for the 300, and that's giving designers fits. It's akin to sophomore album syndrome – when the original is a huge hit, how, exactly, do you follow it up? Chrysler designers are invoking the Porsche philosophy used to update its 911 through the generations as a roadmap for the 300's body changes, so don't expect anything too dramatic on the outside.Inside, however, will be where the real action occurs. While not the worst interior Chrysler puts out, it's certainly got room for improvement. Cerberus chairman Steven Feinburg is reportedly passionate about improving the quality of Chrysler's offerings, and the lower quality materials we have today are being jettisoned in favor of more competitive finery. Whether that means competitive with | | By: Car News | | |
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| High Tech & Evolutionary Barcode Reader | | 2008-05-16 16:44:46 | | The symbol MC9090-GF0HJEFA6WR hand held computer has got to be the most advanced looking bar code reader that I have ever seen. It looks like a laser gun from a science fiction movie. In fact, it is a sort of laser gun & shoots lasers at bar codes like the ones you see in modern day super market checkout counters. It has the ability to capture images & bar codes from as far as 40 feet away & as close as 4 inches! The Symbol MC9090-GF0HJEFA6WR hand held computer has features that can put some one’s basic laptop computer to shame. It has a wireless Gun Terminal: 802.11a/b/g, Standard Range Laser (SE1224), Color, 128MB, 53 key, Windows Mobile 5.0, & Audio/Voice/Bluetooth. Wow! Sales points systems have certainly evolved & become high tech! | | By: internet executive log | | |
| | Evolutionary Kimono | | 2008-04-18 22:15:19 | |
Kimono are traditional Japanese garments, with a history dating back over 1,000 years. Originally Japanese kimono is taken to mean ordinarily all types of clothing of the Nihon people.
Over time, cultural adaptions and its significance of it being worn during customary Shinto rituals, traditions, festivals and religious events, it has evolved to mean [...]
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| | | | Chicago ‘08 Preview: 2009 Mitsubishi Eclipse gets “evolutionary” facelift | | 2008-02-03 02:02:48 | | Filed under: Chicago Auto Show, Coupes, Sports/GTs, Mitsubishi
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While a certain coupe over at Dodge is going to garner the lion’s share of attention in Chicago next week, there are other reveals scheduled. Yesterday brought news that a facelifted Mitsubishi Galant will appear. It’s about as noticeable and inspiring as the pre-facelift [...] | | By: Car O Focus | | |
| | Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design | | 2008-01-18 10:18:00 | | Author: Scott W. Ambler, Pramodkumar J. SadalagePaperback: 384 pagesPublisher: Addison-WesleyLanguage: EnglishISBN: 0321293533 Refactoring has proven its value in a wide range of development projects–helping software professionals improve system designs, maintainability, extensibility, and performance. Now, for the first time, leading agile methodologist Scott Ambler and renowned consultant Pramodkumar Sadalage introduce powerful refactoring techniques specifically designed for database systems.Ambler and Sadalage demonstrate how small changes to table structures, data, stored procedures, and triggers can significantly enhance virtually any database design–without changing semantics. You’ll learn how to evolve database schemas in step with source code–and become far more effective in projects relying on iterative, agile methodologies.This comprehensive guide and reference helps you overcome the practical obstacles to refactoring real-world databases by covering every fundamental concept underlying database refactoring. Using start-to-finish examples, the authors walk you through refactoring simple standalone database applications as well as sophisticated multi-application scenarios. You’ll master every task involved in refactoring database schemas, and discover best practices for deploying refactorings in even the most complex production environments. The second half of this book systematically covers five major categories of database refactorings. You’ll learn how to use refactoring to enhance database structure, data quality, and referential integrity; and how to refactor both architectures and methods. This book provides an extensive set of examples built with Oracle and Java and easily adaptable for other languages, such as C#, C++, or VB.NET, and other databases, such as DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, and Sybase.Using this book’s techniques and examples, you can reduce waste, rework, risk, and cost–and build database systems | | By: GanEden For Books | | |
| | Evolutionary Long Island: Part Three | | 2007-11-30 07:24:00 | | What is "Evolutionary Long Island?"I know, this should have been part one. Sorry. That's just how my brain works sometimes."Evolutionary Long Island" is the process that takes hold when the "One Long Island" concepts have become ingrained in the way we "do business" on Long Island. It is the "self correcting and self adapting" process we've previously discussed that allows Long Island to anticipate change and prepare itself to "take advantage of" the opportunities that change presents. It removes bureaucratic lethargy, "personal agendas" and other non-productive "agents" by focusing on collaboration and results.If "One Long Island" can help create a "Long Island Philosophy," it can also help put the processes into effect that will shape our region for the foreseeable future. The three elements (plus many others) are intertwined. Think, collaborate, create, implement, repeat. The "One Long Island Creative Loop."More in Part Four. | | By: Long Island Idea Factory | | |
| | | Frontiers of Evolutionary Economics: Competition, Self-Organization, and Innovation Policy | | 2007-07-21 17:02:00 | | Author: John FosterPaperback: 416 pagesPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing (August 2001)Language: EnglishISBN: 1840645253Modern evolutionary economics is now nearly two decades old and in this excellent book, a distinguished group of evolutionary economists identify the most important developments and discuss the direction of future research. By moving away from traditional concerns with the operation of selection mechanisms towards a preoccupation with the manner in which the novelty and variety provide fuel for such mechanisms, the authors identify a key development in the field. Evolutionary economists have been drawn into the modern complexity science literature which attempts to provide an understanding of how and why ‘complex adaptive systems’ engage in processes of self-organization. The goal is to provide an integrated analysis of both selection and self-organization that is uniquely economic in orientation.After a brief overview of the many key achieveme | | By: GanEden For Books | | |
| | Evolutionary psychology: A bridge too far for Darwinism? | | 2007-07-09 19:38:05 | | Bill Dembski scooped me on the latest idiocy of Darwinisms idiot child, evolutionary psychology: Until very recently, it was a mystery to evolutionary psychology why men prefer women with large breasts, since the size of a womans breasts has no
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| | The morphogenesis of evolutionary developmental biology (Int. J, Dev. Biol.) | | 2006-09-30 23:35:38 | | [Gilbert, Int. J. Dev. Biol. 47: 467-477 (2003)]Abstract:The early studies of evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-Devo) come from several sources. Tributaries flowing into Evo-Devo came from such disciplines as embryology, developmental genetics, evolutionary biology, ecology, paleontology, systematics, medical embryology and mathematical modeling. This essay will trace one of the major pathways, that from evolutionary embryology to Evo-Devo and it will show the interactions of this pathway with two other sources of Evo-Devo: ecological developmental biology and medical developmental biology. Together, these three fields are forming a more inclusive evolutionary developmental biology that is revitalizing and providing answers to old and important questions involving the formation of biodiversity on Earth. The phenotype of Evo-Devo is limited by internal constraints on what could be known given the methods and equipment of the time and it has been framed by external factors that in | | By: Evolution Research - Main Blog | | |
| | Proximodistal patterning of the limb: insights from evolutionary morphology (ED) | | 2006-09-09 19:35:42 | | [Richardson et al., Evolution and Development, Jan '04]Summary:There is an active debate about how skeletal elements are encoded along the proximodistal (PD) axis of the developing limb. Our aim here is to see whether consideration of the evolutionary morphology of the limb can contribute to our understanding of patterning mechanisms. Of special interest in this context are animals showing reiterated skeletal elements along the PD axis (e.g., dolphins and plesiosaurs with hyperphalangy). We build on previous hypotheses to propose a two-step model of PD patterning in which specification of broad domains in the early limb bud is distinct from subsequent processes that divides an initial anlage into a segmental pattern to yield individual skeletal elements. This model overcomes a major evolutionary problem with the progress zone model, which has not previously been noted: pleiotropy. Parallels with other developmental systems are briefly discussed.(IA) Full text at: hereJohn Latter / Jor | | By: Evolution Research - Main Blog | | |
| | Common objections to 'Internal Evolutionary Mechanisms' (1) | | 2006-08-24 19:18:04 | | Brief notes on four common objections to current or historical proposals of internal evolutionary mechanisms (if you can think of any more then please leave a comment or email me): 1) Internal Evolutionary Mechanisms are 'Mystical' 2) Internal Evolutionary Mechanisms are 'Lamarckian' 3) "Populations Evolve, Individuals Do Not" 4) Weismann's experiment with Rodents 1) Internal Evolutionary Mechanisms are 'Mystical' [Return to Top] In their paper "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm" Gould and Lewontin briefly described the European concept of Bauplan ('bodyplan') which, in its 'strong' form, speculates: "But the important steps of evolution, the construction of the Bauplan itself and the transition between Bauplane, must involve some other unknown, and perhaps 'internal,' mechanism." An internal mechanism cannot be 'mystical' because if one exists then it would be testable. This suggests the concept ought to evoke no greater uncertainty tha | | By: Evolution Research - Main Blog | | |
| | Common objections to 'Internal Evolutionary Mechanisms' (2) | | 2006-03-14 08:49:57 | | 5) Internal Mechanisms are 'directional' (objections 1 to 4 are here)The mathematical model currently used is very basic so an explanation of why the proposed homeostatic internal evolutionary mechanism isn't 'directional' has initially been posted to the Personal Posts category:"An Internal Evolutionary Mechanism and 'Direction in Evolution': Preliminary Notes"John Lattertechnorati tags: internal, evolutionary, mechanism
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| | Mutation and adaptation: the directed mutation controversy in evolutionary perspective | | 2006-03-12 13:02:26 | | [Lenski & Sniegowski, Annual Review of Systematics, Nov '95]Abstract:A central tenet of evolutionary theory is that mutation is random with respect to its adaptive consequences for individual organisms; that is, the production of variation precedes and does not cause adaptation. Several recent experimental reports have challenged this tenet by suggesting that bacteria (and yeast) ''may have mechanisms for choosing which mutations will occur'' (6, p. 142). The phenomenon of nonrandom mutation claimed in these experiments was initially called ''directed mutation'' but has undergone several name changes during its brief and controversial history. The directed mutation hypothesis has not fared well; many examples of apparently directed mutation have been rejected in favor of more conventional explanations, and several reviews questioning the validity of directed mutation have appeared (53, 54, 59-61, 79, 80). Nonetheless, directed mutation has recently been reincarnated under the confusing label ''adaptive mutation'' (5, 23, 24, 27, 35, 74). Here we discuss the many experimental and conceptual problems with directed/adaptive mutation, and we argue that the most plausible molecular models proposed to explain ''adaptive mutation'' are entirely consistent with the modern Darwinian concept of adaptation by natural selection on randomly occurring variation.In the concluding section of the paper, we discuss the importance of an informed evolutionary approach in the study of the potential adaptive significance of mutational phenomena. Knowledge of the molecular bases of mutation is increasing rapidly, but rigorous evolutionary understanding lags behind. We note that ascribing adaptive significance to mutational phenomena (for example, ''adaptive mutation'') is beset with some of the same difficulties as ascribing adaptive significance to features of whole organisms (29). We consider some examples of mutational phenomena along with possible adaptive and non | | By: Evolution Research - Main Blog | | |
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