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NEOCORTEX. "However, the Internet has novel features as well, most critically the relative anonymity afforded to users and the provision of group venues in which to meet others with similar interests and values." These have permitted democratic uprisings as well as advancing terrorism. https://lnkd.in/dysEKym View in LinkedIn

SHRINKING AND CONNECTING THE PLANET. "The Internet is the latest in a series of technological breakthroughs in interpersonal communication, following the telegraph, telephone, radio, and television. It combines innovative features of its predecessors, such as bridging great distances and reaching a mass audience." https://lnkd.in/dysEKym View in LinkedIn

DIGITAL IMPACT. "There is little doubt that the digital technology and social media has already a significant impact on culture." https://lnkd.in/d8-nHvR View in LinkedIn

NEW HUMAN ECOLOGY. "The internet is the decisive technology of the Information Age, and with the explosion of wireless communication in the early twenty-first century, we can say that humankind is now entirely connected." https://lnkd.in/dsHe6fk View in LinkedIn

LOSS OF TOOL PLASTICITY. "Due to developmental constraint, these core GRNs have been highly conserved since the Cambrian. Disruption of these core developmental networks is generally catastrophic, and so, once established, they are very difficult to modify and change (i.e., have low “evolvability”)." (GRNs = gene regulatory networks). https://lnkd.in/dTKCkih View in LinkedIn

RESISTANCE TO CHANGE. "The invention of the printing press was at its time perceived as a threat to European culture, social order and morality. “Ever since they began to practice this perverse excess of printing books, the church has been greatly damaged,” lamented Francisco Penna, a Dominican defender of the Spanish Inquisition." There are modern parallels of course. https://lnkd.in/d8-nHvR View in LinkedIn

TOOL REWIRING. "Some of these “experiments” were successful, producing the animal body plans that we see today. Each of the many diverse body plans would have been formed by a distinct regulatory network, formed by roughly the same set of regulatory genes acting in different combinations and regulated by a different set of developmental enhancers." https://lnkd.in/dTKCkih View in LinkedIn

COMMUNICATION IMPACT. "Throughout human history new technologies of communication have had a significant impact on culture." The printing press. Morse code. The telegraph. The telephone. TV. Radio. The internet. https://lnkd.in/d8-nHvR View in LinkedIn

TOOL COMPLEXIFICATION. "In an ancestral metazoan, this parts list must have been employed in relatively simple GRNs, controlling the development of an ancestral body plan. During early animal evolution there must have been a period of rapid experimentation involving the re-wiring of this parts list in many different combinations." (GRNs = gene regulatory networks). https://lnkd.in/dTKCkih View in LinkedIn

OLD DRIVERS. "Historically, cultural evolution occurred through migration. Migration happens as a result of war, geographical changes or survival requirements and demands. War affected the cultures morals, and regions (if they were dominated etc.) Regional domination could imply control over the population, causing the citizens to move.” https://lnkd.in/dsKGhcp View in LinkedIn