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'Understanding' and Occam's razor

Jun 24, 2017 | Category: learning
At the beginning of the 20th century, physicists Hendrik Lorentz and Albert Einstein both concluded independently that measurements of light speed would be the same for all observers. But while both a...
#knowledge #evolution #Albert Einstein #Occam's razor #David Geary #Richard Laland #Hendrik Lorentz

Two types of learning - which one is best?

Jul 04, 2017 | Category: learning
Evolutionary biologists think of learning as being either social or asocial. Social learning is essentially copying - what is everyone else doing? - whereas asocial learning is accrued by interacting...
#asocial learning #Richard Laland #social learning

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