Science and Human Foibles | R/K Selection and Life History Theory

The following video details the large number of biases that afflict scientific enquiry and human knowledge more generally in addition to explaining the purpose and place of R/K selection theory and the Life History Model that replaced it.

Galileo and Geocentrism
http://www.famous-trials.com/galileotrial
http://www.actforlibraries.org/the-biggest-problems-with-the-geocentric-model-of-the-universe/
Scopes Monkey Trial
http://www.famous-trials.com/scopesmonkey
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/tennstat.htm
Anthropological Bias
https://www.slideshare.net/thorthor6/a-troublesome-inheritance-genes-race-and-human-history-pdf-72311225
R/K
https://www.cs.montana.edu/webworks/projects/stevesbook/contents/chapters/chapter002/section004/blue/page003.html
https://schoolworkhelper.net/life-history-diversity-reproduction-k-vs-r-species-tradeoffs/
http://www.bio.miami.edu/tom/courses/bil160/bil160goods/16_rKselection.html
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275142242_R-Selection_and_K-Selection
https://books.google.de/books?redir_esc=y&id=_pv37gw8CIoC&q=
Density Dependence and Independence
http://study.com/academy/lesson/density-dependent-factors-examples-definition-quiz.html
https://www.boundless.com/biology/textbooks/boundless-biology-textbook/population-and-community-ecology-45/environmental-limits-to-population-growth-251/density-dependent-and-density-independent-population-regulation-931-12187/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5HlzTP0dAc
Life history
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b98f/dac705643eeeef612a8528a7075c70a128f0.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_history_theory
Reproductive Population Differences
http://www.2minutemedicine.com/pros-network-study-examines-pubertal-onset-by-raceethnic-groups-pediatrics-classics-series/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16882780
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/04/why-is-puberty-starting-younger-precocious
Aldabra Giant Tortoise
http://www.arkive.org/aldabra-giant-tortoise/geochelone-gigantea/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldabra_giant_tortoise
Gestation
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/33/1/107/668109/Does-gestation-vary-by-ethnic-group-A-London-based
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Pregnancy-Length-Varies-Genetically-Amongst-Human-Races-48742.shtml
https://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/racial-differences-in-lifespan-and-reproduction/
Twinning
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11441679
https://www.livescience.com/16469-twins-countries-twinning-rates.html
Number of children and infant mortality
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3865739/
https://www.plimoth.org/sites/default/files/media/pdf/edmaterials_demographics.pdf
Child Labour
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/struggle_democracy/childlabour.htm
https://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/hisper_childlabour_low.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20120630033018/http://www.childinfo.org/labour_countrydata.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour
Engineering
http://static.nsta.org/connections/middleschool/201412tntstudentpacket.pdf
http://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/2001/5/01.05.04.x.html

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