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  2. Genetic assimilation - Wikipedia

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    Waddington called the effect he had seen "genetic assimilation". His explanation was that it was caused by a process he called "canalization".He compared embryonic development to a ball rolling down a slope in what he called an epigenetic landscape, where each point on the landscape is a possible state of the organism (involving many variables).

  3. The Brain (1988 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Brain and Verna brainwash the populace into believing Jim is a murderer on a rampage; Janet and Jim's parents fall victim to the brainwashing and turn against Jim. Jim returns to Blake's headquarters as the latter plans to broadcast his Independent Thinking to a nationwide audience.

  4. Baldwin effect - Wikipedia

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    In evolutionary biology, the Baldwin effect describes an effect of learned behaviour on evolution. James Mark Baldwin and others suggested that an organism's ability to learn new behaviours (e.g. to acclimatise to a new stressor) will affect its reproductive success and will therefore have an effect on the genetic makeup of its species through ...

  5. Canalisation (genetics) - Wikipedia

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    Through this process of genetic assimilation, an environmentally induced phenotype had become inherited. Waddington explained this as the formation of a new canal in the epigenetic landscape. It is, however, possible to explain genetic assimilation using only quantitative genetics and a threshold model, with no reference to the concept of ...

  6. Assimilation (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Assimilation is the process of absorption of vitamins, minerals, and other chemicals from food as part of the nutrition of an organism. In humans, this is always done with a chemical breakdown ( enzymes and acids ) and physical breakdown (oral mastication and stomach churning).

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  8. Piaget's theory of cognitive development - Wikipedia

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    To Piaget, assimilation meant integrating external elements into structures of lives or environments, or those we could have through experience. [17] Assimilation is how humans perceive and adapt to new information. It is the process of fitting new information into pre-existing cognitive schemas. [18]

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