GTCEL - Description of Lamark, Darwin and Mendel theories.

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I consider the results of the statistic study, included in MeMint, with the longitudinal data of the Young Adulthood Study, 1939-1967 to be conclusive about the genetic influence on intelligence (r² till 0,99), the significance of the less powerful gene, important functionalities of the sexual diversification and about the existence of a teleological evolution. In other words, most of the main previsions of the GTCEL.	Statistical Annexe
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GENERAL THEORY OF THE CONDITIONAL EVOLUTION OF LIFE
Introduction.
Concepts of evolution, life and vital impulse systems.
Concept of evolution. Evolution as internal dynamic or perception of external changes. Short and long term Evolution. Wide concept of life. Logic approach. Metaphysical approach. Comments. Vital impulse systems.
Critic of the previous theories.
Lamark Darwin Mendel Neodarwinism
The evolution of life.
Objectives of the evolution. Guaranty and security. Improve the efficacy. Internal cohesion or compatibility of the evolutionary system. Optimisation. Origin and sources of genetic modifications. Concept. Clasification. Procedures, methods, processes and mechanisms. Concepts. Types.
GTCEL - Definition, characteristics and conclusions.
Formulation of the GTCEL Characteristics. Conclusions.
Validation of the theory.
Statistical model for the empiric validation of the theory. Other models.
Computer simulation.
The Esnuka game. The simulation option.
Theory implications.
Better understanding of our personal situation Educative system. New perspective of History. Methodology for the analysis of complex systems.
Apendix.
Figures and graphics index. Cognitive ability and brain functions, with special reference to modern computers. Significance and expression of the genetic information: the example of the brakes in the automobile industry. Established theories of the evolution. Lamark Darwin Mendel Neodarwinism

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NOTE: The model of the inheritance of intelligence has been validated using the longitudinal data set of the Young Adulthood Study, 1939-1967. (r² = 0,96 and highers)

PREVIOUS THEORIES OF THE EVOLUTION.

a) Lamarck.

Lamarck's Evolutionary doctrine in his Zoological Philosophical Work written in 1809.

His theory was as follows:

Environmental changes generate new needs.
These needs determine the use or disuse of some organs.
Such organs develop or are diminished.
The acquired characters are hereditary.

Summary: functions create organs and heredity determines the change in offspring.

b) Darwin.

Biological theory by Charles Robert Darwin, the English Naturalist in his main work The Origin of the species, en 1859.

As a contrast to Lamarck's evolutionary doctrine, Darwin proposed natural selection as the basis of evolution. His theory was as follows:

Individuals display differences.
Shortage of food leads them to fight for existence.
Individuals with superior differences have more chance to reach adulthood, reproduce and transmit these variations to their offspring.

Later, in his The Origin of Man and Sexual Selection (1871), he added a new factor, sexual selection, in which male or female chooses partners with more attractive qualities.

c) Mendel.

Laws, which govern heredity discovered by Johann Mendel, Austrian Augustine monk, in his Investigations on hybrids in plants (1865).

This theory consists of the following two laws:

The Law of Scission: factors inherited from parents are joined in the resulting hybrid and are separated when he hybrid reaches the adult stage and produces its sexual cells.

This law can be explained better using the following example, of white and red varieties in the Marvel of Peru plant:

The first generation produces all pink flowers. The second produces one white, two pinks and one red flower.

During the third generation, if white flowers are mixed with other white flowers, they produce white flowers; red flowers with other red flowers produce red flowers, and pink flowers repeat the results in the second generation of hybrids.

The Law of Dominant Character: the dominant character does not destroy the recessive character in the hybrid; it merely conceals it.

An example is given of the cross between white and grey rats:

The first generation produces grey rats. The second produces one white and three grey rats.

The appearance of white rats in a ratio of 1 to 4 in the second generation shows that the white (recessive) character has not been destroyed, but remains hidden.

For ease of understanding, only one character (mono-hybridization), has been included, but two or more (dihybridization or polihybridization) can also be included and the process would be similar, although the possible combinations would grow in geometric proportion.

d) Neodarwinism.

Theory derived from Darwinism which, supported by scientific advances in cytology, biochemistry, genetics, etc. denounces the influence of the environment on the evolution of the species, and the heredity of acquired characters.

Giving merit to variations in germination produced by natural selection and displayed through new morphological or functional characters.