Variations in Variation and Selection: The Ubiquity of the Variation-and-Selective-Retention Ratchet in Emergent Organizational Complexity, Part II: Quantum Field Theory

If the general arguments concerning theinvolvement of variation and selection inexplanations of ``fit'' are valid, then variationand selection explanations should beappropriate, or at least potentiallyappropriate, outside the paradigm historisticdomains of biology and knowledge. In thisdiscussion, I wish to indicate some potentialroles for variation and selection infoundational physics – specifically inquantum field theory. I will not be attemptingany full coherent ontology for quantum fieldtheory – none currently exists, and none islikely for at least the short term future. Instead, I wish to engage in some partiallyspeculative interpretations of some interestingresults in this area with the aim ofdemonstrating that variation and selectionnotions might play a role even here. Ifvariation and selection can survive in even asinhospitable and non-paradigmatic a terrain asfoundational physics, then it can surviveanywhere.     

"Durkheim"的变脸

Emile Durkheim(1858～1917)是现代社会学的创始人,他的重要书籍被翻译成中文,他也频频"光顾"许多中文社科类书籍.不过他在中国却分身有术,善于变脸,简直可称得上是外国名人变脸之最了.     

教学机器人实验系统的开发

本文首先介绍了教学机器人实验系统的设计思想和系统构成，然后对其工作方式及与上位机的联机操作方法作了简要的说明，最后对该系统中模拟通用机器人语言所开发的模拟机器人语言的语句及应用这种机器人语言进行编程的特色作了专门的阐述．     

加强机关事业单位工会组织规范化

就机关事业单位工会组织的规范化,论述了要以强化民主管理工作为重点的规范化建设,全面提高其工作水平,促进机关事业单位的决策科学化、民主化和民主政治建设,调动干部职工的积极性、创造性,增强机关事业单位凝聚力,推动各项工作圆满完成。     

Overcompensation and population cycles in an ungulate.

Although theoretical studies show that overcompensatory density-dependent mechanisms can potentially generate regular or chaotic fluctuations in animal numbers, the majority of realistic single-species models of invertebrate populations are not overcompensatory enough to cause sustained population cycles. The possibility that overcompensation may generate cycles or chaos in vertebrate populations has seldom been considered. Here we show that highly overcompensatng density-dependent mortality can generate recurrent population crashes consistent with those observed in a naturally limited population of Soay sheep. The observed interval of three or more years between crashes points to sharp 'focusing' of mortality over a narrow range of population density.