Year: 2022

STRENGTHENED CONNECTIONS BY SELECTION. "In short, entities that co-occur together ‘wire’ together (and entities that wire together co-occur together)." View in LinkedIn

EXAMPLE 1: GENES. "Genes that are selected together are wired together via the evolution of gene-regulatory interactions that cause them to co-vary (be co-expressed) in future." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

EXAMPLE 2: SPECIES. "Species that co-occur in high-density are wired together by the evolution of ecological relationships that cause them to be co-selected in future." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

EXAMPLE 3: UNITS. "Evolutionary units that reproduce together are wired together by changes to reproductive relationships that cause them to be co-inherited in future." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

#1 GENES. "EVO-DEVO: The more often that two genes are selected together (at the same time/in the same environment) the more selective advantage there is to strengthening developmental interactions between them. This organisational change causes their expression in the phenotype to be correlated in future (e.g. via an increase in the gene-regulatory connection between them." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

#2 SPECIES. "EVO-ECO: The more often that two species populations grow to high-density together (at the same time/in the same environment) the more selective advantage there is for individual traits that strengthen ecological interactions between them. These interactions change in a way that causes their population growth to be more correlated in future, e.g. via reductions to competitive interactions between them." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

#3 UNITS. "EVO-EGO: The more often two evolutionary units reproduce together (at the same time/in the same environment) the more selective advantage there is to individual traits that strengthen reproductive dependencies between them. Such reproductive interactions (controlled by individual selection in either participant) cause their reproduction to be more strongly correlated or centralised in future (e.g. via evolution of co-dispersal behaviours or vertical inheritance)." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

POSITIVE FEEDBACK CAUSATION. "The consequence of this positive feedback is captured by a principle of correlation becomes causation." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

POSITIVE FEEDBACK. "Variables (phenotypic characters, species populations, evolutionary units) whose behaviours originally co-varied because of a correlated external stimulus (or by accident, or because of selection acting at a lower level) come to have behaviours that co-vary because of their internal interaction structures (i.e., developmental interactions, ecological partnerships or reproductive dependencies)." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

GETS INTERESTING. "Although this positive feedback between topology and behaviour (organisation and evolution) is simple when considering individual connections between a pair of entities, the consequences of this principle for the dynamics of larger systems is much more interesting but not immediately obvious." https://lnkd.in/dTqS4ZN View in LinkedIn