Tag: evolutionary

In simple terms, optimisation problems are all about maximising or minimising a real function subject to one or more constraints. In infrastructure planning and design, a classic optimisation problem is to find the design with the lowest construction cost, the shortest journey time or increasingly, ...

The hominin or hominid branch of the evolutionary tree includes modern humans as well as the extinct human predecessors such as Neanderthal, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, and other early intelligent standing primates that have long since vanished. Despite many years of thinking otherwise, scientists a...

Wright’s brilliant, well-written, and utterly unusual book, “The Moral Animal.” The book showed me how morals have changed and brought up some controversial issues that have political, sexual, family, office, and social consequences. Wright is trying to make the main point tha...