00 - Introduction

Introduction

Treating Evolution as a proven theory,
within which, the knowledge that our brain is a
composition of independent structures,
each individually created and improved gradually over time,
with each improvement beneficial to its owner,
can yield powerful research and deduction tools.

Not only one can learn about the psychology
of animals from that of humans,
like we naturally do with our pets,
and researchers do with nature,
but the psychology of animals can teach us
about that of ours, with surprising accuracy,
much like evolution is teaching science
human anatomy through that of animals.

"In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches.
Psychology will be based on a new foundation,
that of the necessary aquirement of each mental power
and capacity by gradation" - Charles Darwin

02 - Variations Under Nature

Five Senses

There are countless special senses in Nature.

Bats can see moths in the darkness with their ears.
Migrating birds can see the magnetic fields generated by the poles of the earth,
like geographic lines on a global map.
Certain fish can see the shapes of objects in the water by similar means,
some magnetic, some by the effect of their movement on the echoes of moving water.
Some water predators see their pray by sensing the electricity generated
by it operating its muscles.

Blind people can see the wall marking the edge of a swimming pool by
feeling the water becoming harder to move through.

Senses can be identified, defined as distinct, and named,
only if we can identify the organs that produce the resulting perception,
and only if the process of evolution making them distinct is complete.

Our brain is young and highly variable.
Most blind people do not see the edge of the swimming pool,
but many of them do.

We have many structures still evolving.
It is convenient to digitize the language and talk about having exactly five senses.
It is misleading to compare the vision of blind people to that of the bat,
not because one uses the sense of hearing and the other that of touch,
but because the vision qualities of the bat are distinct and perfected.

As a side note, it is implied by the D. Postulate,
applied to the development of vocabulary,
that words in the language will become distinct and well
separated, much like species and their individual attributes.

As the time scale is much denser in this case,
the language senses have in fact been perfected long ago.

02 - Variations Under Nature

04 - Natural Selection

Explained

Proof of Evolution - Evolution Explained in a Nutshell:

What is evolution? To evolve means to slowly improve.

Exponential growth Replication with slight Variations => Natural Selection

Exponential growth Replication, which is always true in nature,
implies near certain death to most.
The probability to survive is so slim,
that any large variation of a newborn
incapacitates the individual in its chances to survive.
Many different very small variations do occur, and a small
portion of those better the probability of the individual to survive.
If this individual is to survive and reproduce, so might some of the new genes.

It is in this slow process that after many generations those slight variations
accumulate and produce the wonderful nature we now see.

It is important to stress, that this rule applies to any mischievous gene:
If a cheetah grows one toenail a bit too long, it might pay by death.

This is why species have stayed the same throughout many generations.
Natural selection is very keen on preserving that which it has already created,
all else in the environment being the same.

If a group of individuals are forming new and better genes,
they will compete successfully with their parent form and usually make it extinct.
If the group deviated enough, while the parent form survived,
Natural selection will separate them into two distinct species over time.
Intermediate forms will find it difficult to compete on resources
with their more extreme lookalikes,
and slowly over generations will diminish in numbers and become extinct.
With this process, one species becomes two distinct species.

04 - Natural Selection