We knew that there were just two species of mouse lemurs, one from the west coast of Madagascar and one from the east, that they were very similar morphologically and ecologically, and probably only recently diverged, that they both have broad geographic distributions. They both readily adapt to secondary habitat.
That's not true for morphology and motility. So morphological methods, morphology, has changed. Motility has changed, how you assess motility.
either out gathering nectar and pollen from flowers or inside the hive, coming back to transfer that nectar and pollen into this inner space. And there's actually a really interesting morphological shift that happens in the body of the honey bee as they move from a nurse bee into a forager bee. The nurse bees are inside all the time, so they get really developed crawling muscles.
If I now tell you here, please point to the sugar, please point to the eggs, you can't. That's absolutely untrue in that the morphological features of a newborn haven't yet sufficiently formed for you to be able to objectively he looks more like the dad
You could say kinds of minds, I guess. The most fundamental is what we call morphological intelligence. And that's the intelligence that you get just from having a physical body.
In other words, the behavior of walking is an emergent property of the mechanics, if you like, the springs and levers and so on in the robot. So that's an example of morphological intelligence. Individual intelligence is the kind of intelligence that you get from learning individually.
The forager bees are flying outside of the colonies, so they actually have to learn to grow their wing muscles. And so that's actually a genetic or a morphological shift that happens in these honey bees during their life cycle. Once they're making that transition from nurse bee to forager bee, they'll actually learn their flight path and train those muscles by flying a foot away
want to come to the audience and get any questions or suggestions or thoughts you have so just raise your hand and Y has a mic if you evolutionary history the traits of the phenotypic traits the morphological traits of the specimens the genotypic
And that's the intelligence that you get just from having a physical body. And there are some interesting questions about how you design morphological intelligence. You've probably all seen pictures of or movies of robots that can walk, but in fact don't actually have any computing, any computation whatsoever.
Let's go on. Clinical endocrinology. Girls who are afflicted with congenital adrenal hyperplasia-- this is an endocrinological disorder that masculinizes morphological features, that masculinizes behaviors-- little girls who suffer from congenital adrenal hyperplasia, what do you think happens to their toy preferences?
On the y-axis, we have genetic divergence. And on the x-axis, we have morphological divergence. And so we're up here in this top left corner, where it's non-adaptive radiations or cryptic species
And he's published a big catalog. And then Marc published this second paper, "Mass assembly of morphological transformations since redshift 3 from CANDELS."
Instead of trying to crunch things up to do the numbers, as in following an algorithm into the software, into the mind of the robot, we try to decentralize and outsource those tasks, those competencies into the very actual material, morphological properties of the robot body itself. So doing that with soft materials already gives you a lot.
But here's the interesting question. How, in a flora of 80,000 species of vascular plants, did the indigenous shaman learn to combine these morphologically distinct denizens of the rainforest to create this biochemical version of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts?
The problem is, when she moves the one-week-old developing embryos from one uterus to another, she knows who is who. So one of the first questions they asked was this-- there are all these changes that have happened with domesticated foxes-- not only they're calmer, but all the morphological
and in that lander and that will probably land on Europa hopefully within the next 10 years. And they would go to a place on the surface, probably one of these chaos regions, which morphologically they look like it's actually upwelling of ground water from the ocean going all the way through the ice cover and then freezing on the surface.
My goodness, that's very sexist to say. No it's not. Women, by the way, have very clear morphological preferences in the types of men they prefer. For a sexually reproducing species, you would expect that the two sexes would have evolved preferences.
And he's published a big catalog. images. So, "we mimic human perception with deep learning using convolutional neural networks trained to reproduce the CANDELS visual morphological
In other words it was euthanized and collected because the scientists onboard the vessel were fairly sure it was probably a new species. The only they can do the detective work to determine that is to actually have the specimen, so they can do the morphological research but also so they can do DNA sequencing.
And that's because we didn't want to be in the uncomfortable situation of seeing a trend but not knowing whether it was due to changes in method. That's not true for morphology and motility. So morphological methods, morphology, has changed.