By the start of 1856, Darwin was investigating whether eggs and seeds could survive travel across seawater to spread species across oceans. Hooker increasingly doubted the traditional view that specie ...
Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, on 12 February 1809 at his family home, The Mount. He was the fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Da ...
Speciation is the process where a species diverges into two or more descendant species.There are multiple ways to define the concept of "species". The choice of definition is dependent on the particul ...
In addition to being a major source of variation, mutation may also function as a mechanism of evolution when there are different probabilities at the molecular level for different mutations to occur, ...
The proposal that one type of animal could descend from an animal of another type goes back to some of the first pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, such as Anaximander and Empedocles. Such proposals sur ...
The origins of the field can be traced back to Charles Darwin who wrote in his Descent of Man:"When we treat of sexual selection we shall see that primeval man, or rather some early progenitor of man, ...
Many of the classical techniques and theories of psychophysics were formulated in 1860 when Gustav Theodor Fechner in Leipzig published Elemente der Psychophysik. He coined the term "psychophysics", d ...
In linguistics (articulatory phonetics), manner of articulation describes how the tongue, lips, jaw, and other speech organs are involved in making a sound make contact. Often the concept is only used ...
Physiological studies date back to ancient civilizations of India, Egypt alongside anatomical studies but did not utilize dissections and vivisection. The study of human physiology as a medical field ...
The medial temporal lobe consists of structures that are vital for declarative or long-term memory. Declarative (denotative) or explicit memory is conscious memory divided into semantic memory (facts) ...
There are three main components of the human ear: the outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear.Outer ear Main article: Outer earThe outer ear includes the pinna, the visible part of the ear, as we ...
Hearing is not a purely mechanical phenomenon of wave propagation, but is also a sensory and perceptual event; in other words, when a person hears something, that something arrives at the ear as a mec ...
An intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions which maximize its chances of success. The simplest intelligent agents are programs that solve specific problems. More ...
Main articles: History of artificial intelligence and Timeline of artificial intelligenceThinking machines and artificial beings appear in Greek myths, such as Talos of Crete, the bronze robot of Heph ...
A computer model refers to the algorithms and equations used to capture the behavior of the system being modeled. By contrast, a computer simulation refers to the actual running of the program that co ...
