What is the EEA and why is it important?
The Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness. This phrase, first coined by John Bowlby of attachment theory fame, has been the source of much confusion and controversy. First of all, the EEA is NOT a specific time or place. Roughly, it is the environment to which a species is adapted. Animals that lived in different environments or made their livings in different ways faced different reproductive problems, and that’s why all animals aren’t the same. Fish faced different problems than did butterflies, and as a result they have different adaptations. The EEA for any specific organism is the set of reproductive problems faced by members of that species over evolutionary time. The EEA for a particular species of fish is likely to be completely different than the EEA for a particular species of butterfly, even if those species both evolved in the same locations over the same periods of time. Each of these species faced reproductive problems that the other didn’t, and thus their EEA’s are dif
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- I am a national from a country other than Switzerland or those included within the EEA or the Agreed Overseas Territories, and am resident in the UK, am I eligible to pay the UK course or module fee?
- Can firms regulated outside the EEA reinsure with an ISPV?
- What is the procedure for foreign (non EEA) nationals?
