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MEMES AT WORK. "The current "networked society" is a product of the digital revolution and some major sociological changes. One of these is the rise of the "Me-centered society"." https://lnkd.in/dsHe6fk View in LinkedIn

TINKERING FOR A BILLION YEARS. "Many of the regulatory genes in butterflies, giraffes and squid, for example, are similar, having been inherited from their last common ancestor, the protostome–deuterostome ancestor, which lived at least half a billion years ago. Thus the striking changes in body plans have been accompanied by relatively modest tinkering with the machinery of early development of that long-extinct precursor." https://lnkd.in/dx4KvtT View in LinkedIn

DIGITAL BEDROOM. "The digitalization of childhood can be interpreted as a response to a pre-existing need for new technologies of interaction. The digital bedroom emerged as the outcome of the growing tendency to relocate children’s activities from the outdoor to the indoor." https://lnkd.in/d8-nHvR View in LinkedIn

FROM EXPLOSION TO TINKERING. "Once a large range of morphologies were explored, the major animal forms were fixed and subsequent diversification occurred through finer tinkering and re-use, mainly affecting later development." https://lnkd.in/dTKCkih View in LinkedIn

"VIRTUAL LIFE is becoming more social than the physical life." https://lnkd.in/dsHe6fk View in LinkedIn

POST CAMBRIAN TOOLKIT. "The stability of animal body plans and the underlying GRNs after the Cambrian period have resulted in many of these cis-regulatory elements being maintained ever since as sequences that evolve very slowly and in parallel in different animal groups." (GRNs = gene regulatory networks). https://lnkd.in/dTKCkih View in LinkedIn

OPEN INNOVATION. "A key factor that enables us as human beings to solve complex problems and achieve a level of dominance over a wide variety of environments from the desert to the arctic to the deep ocean is not simply our individual big brains, but our capacities for extreme sociality, to cooperate and learn from one another, and our ability to build on previous knowledge and to accumulate culture." https://lnkd.in/gMtMDwD View in LinkedIn

SLOW EVOLUTION. "CNEs are slowly evolving but not entirely frozen sequences and in some cases changes in CNEs might reflect tinkering with developmental GRNs." (GRNs = gene regulatory networks; CNEs = conserved non-coding elements). https://lnkd.in/dTKCkih View in LinkedIn

TECHNOLOGICAL SPREAD. "Cumulative culture is the engine that drives the remarkable power of the global human computer. It enables societies to act as extremely powerful computers by ratcheting up technological and other cultural innovations." https://lnkd.in/gMtMDwD View in LinkedIn

CUMULATIVE CULTURE. "Our culture is cumulative because we are born into highly constructed environments full of amazing gadgets like language and literacy." https://lnkd.in/dwNsDzt View in LinkedIn