three frameworks of comparative systems - Answer✔✔--Form & function of the parts
under investigation
-Phylogenetic diversity & evolution of the system in different taxa
-Ecophysiology
Tech designs vs living systems - Answer✔✔--Technological advancement is an
evolutionary progression
-Organisms are impressive, beautiful & awe-inspiring
>Exceedingly complex in architecture & functional adaptations
>Appropriate to speak of life forms having "design"
Any mutation that increases an organism's survival & lifetime reproductive success will
be favored by... - Answer✔✔-natural selection
Adaptive evolution - Answer✔✔-emerges from a nonrandom accumulation of
whatever traits worked best at the time
Limitations of Evolutionary Designs - Answer✔✔--Selection can only act on the
existing working material in a population
-Animal phenotypes are constrained by their previous evolutionary steps
-No metacognitive decision-making towards increasing fitness
-No progressive, or teleological, evolution towards achieving end goals
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