The Role Of Multistability In Artificial Selection

Charles Darwin’s contribution to the adaptationist program was to provide the first and only scientifically coherent account of the origin and maintenance of adaptations: evolution by natural selection. Seeing as natural selection is the only known or suspected evolutionary process capable of producing and maintaining complex design, one might suspect that adaptationism has provided a basis of knowledge for countless disciplines. He argued that in nature, species evolve by a process analogous to selective breeding, or artificial selection, wherein organisms are modified in the course of successive generations to suit human purposes. In artificial selection, the breed capitalizes upon naturally occurring variation and allows only those individuals with desired characteristics (such as running fast, producing abundant amounts of milk, having abnormally dense and coarse fur, or possessing more melanin in the skin) to reproduce. And since offspring tend to resemble their parents more than they resemble a random favored characteristic or member of their species, the result is the evolution of domesticated breeds that manifest in exaggerated form whatever qualities the breeder has selected. By this simple (yet complex) process a wolf
The tendency of the mind to switch back and forth between the whole view and the view of individual components is known as multistability. Multistability can be defined as as the tendency of perceptual experiences to change back and forth between two or more interpretations. These ideas of how the mind perspectives are included in the Gestalt. Gestalt psychology is a theory of how the mind works in terms of perception. The general idea which the Gestalt is based on is that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Similarly, Darwin’s theory of natural