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seifreundlich2
5 years ago

Evolution is not a learning process, because it happens unconsciously, randomly and in contrast to the adaptation of more numerous generations.

Zalla55
5 years ago
Reply to  seifreundlich2

Most learning is unconscious. Most of the things we learn as a baby and toddler by trying. There’s no child saying, I want to learn how to run.

seifreundlich2
5 years ago
Reply to  Zalla55

That’s why a “and” and no “or”.

Pomophilus
5 years ago

No!

Learning presupposes that the result of a process is stored somewhere in order to be able to apply it the next time.

If, in a foreign language, I suggest a new vocabulary for a situation that I have not yet had, and then actually learn, then I will remember in the next comparable situation, and do not have to re-examine how to express it. Perhaps I have learned a vocabulary that does not correspond to the starting word 1:1, but only under certain conditions, then I will make the same mistake again and again in the future.

If there is a species of animal on a bare, cold island with low food supply, then a read-out process will take place, the result of which can be seen a bit far foreseeable: those with a lower food requirement and a longer coat could have the better maps, the newly created species could differ from the original in these points. Maybe the longer coat would have all a very striking color, which leads to completely new problems with fress enemies… In any case, nature has found a new, more or less suitable “Vokabel” for the new situation. But if after a few hundred thousand years a similar case occurs again, a few will land on a similar island, then no one will remember what solution was found at that time, but it will again develop a completely new solution, perhaps similar to in the first case, but perhaps also quite different…

IchWerner
5 years ago

Evolution goes on a whole.

From the perspective of evolution is learned from mistakes. However, it is not enough that an individual has learned something, but this improved adaptation must be genetically manifested and ultimately enforced by displacement of the “unlearned” individuals.

However, if one understands the term “learning” far enough, one can say that there is always a learning event at the beginning of an evolutionary process (except in mutations).

kevin378910
5 years ago

No, it’s not.

Evolution is random and pure try & error. New properties result from genetic defects. If these are good, one survives and the defect spreads through descendants, and if not one dies and thus the defect disappears again. And that goes on forever. The ones with the good gene defect get new gene defects, which are good or bad again, etc.

verreisterNutzer
5 years ago
Reply to  kevin378910

Even better answer than that of noname68

MrAmazing2
5 years ago
Reply to  kevin378910

But Trial & Error is “learning”?

Only do not relate to a single individual, but to a whole kind. Thus “learns” the way.

So in computer science (K.I.) you can understand how to learn “trial and error”. 😀

tom1stein
5 years ago

From the point of view of a “global living being earth” yes: she notices what didn’t work. Their biological memory is the survivors.

In other considerations rather no: Evolution is chaos and survival of the randomly better equipped or randomly also the badly equipped.

The answer therefore lies in the way of consideration.

EbbesKleines
5 years ago

Evo­lu­

/Evolutión/

Noun, feminine [they]

  1. 1.
  2. Educational
  3. slow, progressive development of particularly large or large-scale relationships; “The evolution of social forms”
  4. Two.
  5. Biology
  6. historical development of lower to higher forms of living”the evolution of the earthly fauna”

Origin

Latin evolutio = the strike (one book), to: evolvere, evolve

Source: wiki

MrAmazing2
5 years ago
Reply to  EbbesKleines

Now answer the question.

Janeko85
5 years ago

No, because the beings do not decide to change their characteristics.

Beings evolve in the course of evolution, resulting in random and undirected mutations of the individuals of a population that cause a certain variability of their characteristics. In sexually propagating living beings there is also recombination, i.e. the redistribution of the genes of the parents in their descendants, which leads to new combinations of features.

Those individuals who, by chance, are slightly better adapted to the environmental conditions prevailing in their habitat than the others, tend to have a longer life and/or better chances of finding sexual partners, which leads to them having a little more offspring. That’s called selection.

When this happens again and again, the beneficial characteristics gradually prevail in the population, so the percentage of individuals with these characteristics increases in the population. At some point, then perhaps all individuals of the population have these characteristics, which are then called fixed. Thus, if the individuals of the population differ sufficiently from their ancestors, one can speak of a new kind.

In addition, there are other evolutionary factors such as gene drift, i.e. the random change not taking place by selection, the frequencies of characteristics in a population, and isolation, which denotes the division of an original population into several subpopulations. But they all take place unconsciously.

noname68
5 years ago

you can also learn with the “try & error” method that uses nut nature in the evolution.

the “learning” is not reflected in knowledge, but in characteristics and adaptations of living beings.

Zalla55
5 years ago
Reply to  noname68

I find a suitable answer.

verreisterNutzer
5 years ago
Reply to  noname68

I also, try & error would have been my answer — in addition, I would like to say that, precisely because of try&error, it is rather a random process than a learning process … (the error from try&error is annoyed several times)

gregor443
5 years ago

Evolution itself is not a learning process.

But it involves learning processes of living beings.

Best regards

gregor443

ZaoDaDong
5 years ago

No. Evolution is change over time. This can also mean a process of forgetting.

quantthomas
5 years ago

Somehow, but with the small limitation that there is only 1 or 0 for a decision.

If the decision was correct, you’ll survive. If the decision was not quite optimal, then the evolutionary strand tears and others occupy your place.