between the distance to the middle of t...Figure 5.3. Quantification of the trajectories for a macroscopic wave-particle i...Figure 5.4. A squirrel killed by a cat. Individually, it is an unforeseeable cat...Figure 5.5. The collective motion experience, where a sheep trained to move towa...4 Chapter 6Figure 6.1. Evolution of the universe since the emergence of classical time (the...Figure 6.2. Speculative cosmology. There is no better illustration of Quantum Co...Figure 6.3. Time is compressed, pushed to the very last extreme, time is foaming...Figure 6.4. The visualized arrow hits the target before leaving the bow. The for...Figure 6.5. (a) To each eye its object to each object its eye. (b) SNO: undergro...Figure 6.6. Virgo: open-air kilometer gravitational wave detector (Italy). For a...Figure 6.7. Diffused cosmological background captured by the European satellite ...Figure 6.8. Infrared Spider Nebula. 10,000 light years away in the Cocher Conste...Figure 6.9. A scene showing microcosmic love. e- and e+ represent, respectively,...Figure 6.10. Flowery vacuum. Above: the classic vacuum identifiable by its nothi...Figure 6.11. Casimir effectFigure 6.12. Strong vacuum. We must see the gluons, half-wave half-particle virt...Figure 6.13. The history of the universe. There is a physical and thermal chain ...Figure 6.14. Eternal Inflation: a universe can hide or cover another. It is cut ...Figure 6.15. Superstring theory landscape. Thanks to the tunnel effect (mountain...Figure 6.16. Flattening effect of inflationFigure 6.17. The good work of inflation: origin of large structures. For a color...Figure 6.18. Cosmological landscape in section. Recipe for the universe: Take a ...Figure 6.19. Spumescent amities of the vacuum. For a color version of this figur...
5 Chapter 7Figure 7.1. Decision-making in the brain. For a color version of this figure, se...Figure 7.2. An example of mood bias. For a color version of this figure, see www...Figure 7.3. Chance in decision-making models. For a color version of this figure...
6 Chapter 12Figure 12.1. The main types of gene transfer mechanisms. For a color version of ...
7 Chapter 13Figure 13.1. A famous representation of evolutionary convergence within mammals ...
8 Chapter 14Figure 14.1. The “epigenetic” landscape: a metaphor for development (Waddington ...Figure 14.2. The action of the genotype on the phenotype: view of the landscape ...Figure 14.3. Simulation of the evolution of a population of N = 300 individuals ...Figure 14.4. Canalization: Simulation of the evolution of a population of N = 40...Figure 14.5. Target selection. Simulation of the evolution of a population of N ...Figure 14.6. Neighborhood selection. Simulation of the evolution of a population...Figure 14.7. Neighborhood selection. Simulation of the evolution of a population...
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