evolution

Universality of the Lotka-Volterra equations

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Jun 10, 2012 — 1 min read

If humankind were to discover a planet that harbours water, and if, by some provenance, the same unicellular organisms that were the precursors to Earth-bound evolution were to be introduced into this environment…

Would the significant differences between our evolutionary pattern and their evolutionary pattern be equivalent in any measure to the significant differences between our environment and theirs? (akin to linguistic relativity; see Whorf-Sapir hypothesis) How might we measure these differences?
How would the second-degree Kolmogorov model predator/prey population functions change? (Lotka-Volterra equations)
Will the timeframe for “onset” of intelligence be determinable? Will intelligence manifest itself again at all? (Naturalism)
Will the Earthborn megapode be able to recognize the “alien” megapode (or vice versa)? (Vitalism)
Will evolutionary parameters in similar environments be similar, or will small changes in the evolution of genetic components manifest as large deviations in the final morphology?

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