Evolution
- Anaximander (~546 BCE)
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829)
- Gideon Mantell (1790–1852)
- Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
- Gregor Mendel (1822–1884)
- Those DNA discoverers
- Richard Dawkins
See also
- Book: The Selfish Gene
- Geological eras
A quick summary to use in passing:
[…] there is already a consensus that people are adaptation executers, not utility maximizers. Evolution gives us random adaptations which contribute to fitness (1) on average (2) in an ancient jungle.
- nonintuitive
- group selection
- kin selection
- true altruism proportional to genes shared
- 1/2 (??) for siblings, 1/8 for cousins
- true altruism proportional to genes shared
- ant workers enslave queen
- adaptation-executers, not fitness-maximizers
- unit of selection
- gene, cistron, etc
- certainly not bodies
- disposable
- aging is deterioration of body after reproductive years
- not corporations or nanodevices: Corporations don't "evolve"
- phenotypes of genes
- vehicle
- environment
- a beaver dam is 'part of' the beaver
- other vehicles
- two species can sometimes co-evolve
- the microbiota in a human gut
- parasite hosts
- can't plan ahead
- suboptimal results: see human airways
- retina backwards
- evolutionarily stable state
- Why do almost all species birth 50/50 males/females?
- Red Queen Race: it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place
- an example of an unsympathetic optimization process
- doesn't bother to anesthetize fatally wounded and dying creatures, even when their pain no longer serves any reproductive purpose, because the anesthetic would serve no reproductive purpose either
- thou art godshatter
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