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Re:It looks like you’re trying to take over the world by makerdiety on Sunday March 27, 2022 @10:51AM (#30820662)
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 (#30820780)
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 (#30821118)
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...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96verkalix_study

Re:It looks like you’re trying to take over the world by nanomonkey on Sunday March 27, 2022 @12:22PM (#30821497)
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.