Self-Adaptive Heuristics for Evolutionary Computation by Oliver Kramer
English | PDF | 2008 | 181 Pages | ISBN : 3540692800 | 3.7 MB
Evolutionary algorithms are successful biologically inspired meta-heuristics. Their success depends on adequate parameter settings. The question arises: how can evolutionary algorithms learn parameters automatically during the optimization? Evolution strategies gave an answer decades ago: self-adaptation. Their self-adaptive mutation control turned out to be exceptionally successful. But nevertheless self-adaptation has not achieved the attention it deserves.

Multiobjective Optimization: Interactive and Evolutionary Approaches by Jürgen Branke
English | PDF | 2008 | 481 Pages | ISBN : 3540889078 | 5.2 MB
Multiobjective optimization deals with solving problems having not only one, but multiple, often conflicting, criteria. Such problems can arise in practically every field of science, engineering and business, and the need for efficient and reliable solution methods is increasing.

Genetic and Evolutionary Computing: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, October 21-23, 2021, Jilin, China by Shu-Chuan Chu
English | EPUB | 2022 | 736 Pages | ISBN : 9811684294 | 102.6 MB
This book contains selected papers presented at ICGEC 2021, the 14th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, held from October 21-23, 2021 in Jilin City, China. The conference was technically co-sponsored by Springer, Northeast Electric Power University Fujian University of Technology, Shandong University of Science and Technology, and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Animal Behaviour An Evolutionary Perspective by Peter M Kappeler PDF | 24.27 MB
English | 403 Pages

Title: Animal Behaviour: An Evolutionary Perspective
Author: Peter M. Kappeler
Year: 2022

Twenty Evolutionary Blunders - Dangers & Difficulties of Darwinian Thinking
pdf | 1.48 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B077J5YNRB | Author: Randy Guliuzza | Year: 2017

Genetic and Evolutionary Computing - Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing
pdf, epub | 172.74 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B09PQCLGBM | Author: Shu-Chuan Chu, Jerry Chun-Wei Lin, Jianpo Li, Jeng-Shyang Pan | Year: 2022

Sybil L. Hart, "Evolutionary Perspectives on Infancy "
English | ISBN: 3030759997 | 2022 | 394 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This unique volume is one of the first of its kind to examine infancy through an evolutionary lens, identifying infancy as a discrete stage during which particular types of adaptations arose as a consequence of certain environmental pressures. Infancy is a crucial time period in psychological development, and evolutionary psychologists are increasingly recognizing that natural selection has operated on all stages of development, not just adulthood. The volume addresses this crucial change in perspective by highlighting research across diverse disciplines including developmental psychology, evolutionary developmental psychology, anthropology, sociology, nutrition, and primatology. Chapters are grouped into four sections:

Insects - Evolutionary Success, Unrivaled Diversity, and World Domination ()
epub | 198.86 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B071RSTQ1Q | Author: David B. Rivers | Year: 2017

English | 2021 | ISBN: 9780197531532 | 1942 pages | True EPUB | 59.94 MB
The terrestrial organisms of the Galápagos Islands live under conditions unlike those anywhere else. At the edge of a uniquely rich mid-ocean upwelling, their world is also free of mammalian predators and competitors, allowing them to live unbothered, exuberant lives. With its giant tortoises, marine iguanas, flightless cormorants, and forests of giant daisies, there's no question that this is a magnificent place. Long before people traversed the Earth, evolution endowed native species with adaptations to these special conditions and to perturbations like El Niño events and periodic droughts. As the islands have grown ever-more connected with humanity, those same adaptations now make its species vulnerable. Today, the islands are best viewed as one big social-ecological system where the ability of each native organism to survive and reproduce is a product of human activity in addition to ecological circumstances. In this book, William H. Durham takes readers on a tour of Galápagos and the organisms that inhabit these isolated volcanic islands. Exuberant Life offers a contemporary synthesis of what we know about the evolution of its curiously wonderful organisms, how they are faring in the tumultuous changing world around them, and how evolution can guide our efforts today for their conservation. The book highlights the ancestry of a dozen specific organisms in these islands, when and how they made it to the Galápagos, as well as how they have changed in the meantime. Durham traces the strengths and weaknesses of each species, arguing that the mismatch between natural challenges of their habitats and the challenges humans have recently added is the main task facing conservation efforts today. Such analysis often provides surprises and suggestions not yet considered, like the potential benefits to joint conservation efforts between tree finches and tree daisies, or ways in which the peculiar evolved behaviors of Nazca and blue-footed boobies can be used to benefit both species today. In each chapter, a social-ecological systems framework is used to highlight links between human impact, including climate change, and species status today, Historically, the Galápagos have played a central role in our understanding of evolution; what these islands now offer to teach us about conservation may well prove indispensable for the future of the planet.

English | 2021 | ISBN: B09MN7SD43 | 192 pages | True pdf, epub | 27.16 MB
The Rise of Chance in Evolutionary Theory: A Pompous Parade of Arithmetic explores a pivotal conceptual moment in the history of evolutionary theory: the development of its extensive reliance on a wide array of concepts of chance. It tells the history of a methodological and conceptual development that reshaped our approach to natural selection over a century, ranging from Darwin's earliest notebooks in the 1830s to the early years of the Modern Synthesis in the 1930s. Far from being a "pompous parade of arithmetic,” as one early critic argued, evolution transformed during this period to make these conceptual and technical tools indispensable.