Re:It looks like you’re trying to take over the world
by makerdiety on Sunday March 27, 2022 @10:51AM
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Culture and memes are the software side of evolution? What is the hardware side?
Re:It looks like you’re trying to take over the world
by cdirkx on Sunday March 27, 2022 @11:06AM
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Your body and genetics, it takes a really long time to evolve a different body (thousands of generations), but it takes very little time to update culture (couple of generations).
Re:It looks like you’re trying to take over the world
by Swizec on Sunday March 27, 2022 @11:43AM
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There is evidence that single generation evolution can happen with strong enough shocks. Nothing immediately obvious, just detectable DNA changes that lead to changes in risk for certain conditions.
https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/21/study-of-hol...
Re:It looks like you’re trying to take over the world
by nanomonkey on Sunday March 27, 2022 @12:22PM
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Epigenetics and Genetics (DNA). Epigenetics allows for changes within an organism's lifetime, and include the ability to pass along environmental stressors to the next generation.
There is a great book from MIT press [Evolution in Four Dimensions](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/evolution-four-dimensions) that goes into how Genetics, Epigenetics, behavior and symbolic transmission of data between generations guide evolution.
> Culture is faster than meat.
> Faster to inculcate. Faster to copy. Faster to communicate. Faster to update.
> And it's a lot harder to kill.
> The day our primate progenitors began passing down their own knowledge to subsequent generations was the greatest leap forward in global learning rate that our planet has ever seen.
> I think the jury's still out on our impact of printing it out into a three ring binder.
Culture and memes are the software side of evolution.