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ACCUMULATED CHANGE. "The pace of change of human material culture appears faster in more recent periods than it does for older ones. More surprising, however, is the fact that the magnitude of accumulated cultural changes grows at an increasingly faster pace with time, which is more so than the magnitude of accumulated biological change." https://lnkd.in/du2rR_7 View in LinkedIn

CULTURAL EVOLUTION. "Once culture originates, it has the capacity to evolve on its own, and the past century has shown an explosion of technological culture, including notably the creation of computing machines and complex distributed informational networks connecting them." https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn

FASTER CHANGE. "Cultural evolution is expected to be faster than biological evolution because of its Lamarckian nature, and because cultural information is transmitted through different routes than genetic information." https://lnkd.in/du2rR_7 View in LinkedIn

GIANT TRANSITIONS. "Once life originated, biological evolution underwent a number of major evolutionary transitions, and presumably there are more to come. Even though the identification of “major” transitions involves some inescapable arbitrariness, probably everyone will agree that past transitions include the origin of eukaryotes, the origin of multicellular life, and the origin of language and culture." https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn

PROPELLED BY CULTURAL ADAPTATION. "Around 60,000 years ago, cumulative cultural adaptation was what propelled modern humans out of Africa in small tribal groups, by enabling us to acquire knowledge and produce technologies suitable to different environments." https://lnkd.in/dk3g3fx View in LinkedIn

LIFE AS IT COULD BE. https://lnkd.in/dHes2Yd View in LinkedIn

CULTURAL EVOLUTION of the human species has led to the remarkable era of the digital and the internet age. At the same time, biology has leapt forward with synthetic biology and the ability to edit our own genome and potentially affect our own evolution. These tools enable our cultural and our biological evolution, especially as the two start to overlap. Now is the time to look at that overlap. View in LinkedIn

VIRTUAL TO PHYSICAL, by algorithm evolution selecting for directional motion. Virtual to physical world by 3D printing, pixel by pixel, layer by layer. https://lnkd.in/eGii4i4 View in LinkedIn

INHERITANCE. "Biological (or genetic) evolution occurs through genetic variation and reproduction, and involves the transfer of genes from one generation to the next. Cultural evolution occurs through the development of customs and languages, and involves the transfer of information either within a generation or across many generations." But genes are information. https://lnkd.in/d-EG9jg View in LinkedIn

FACTIONS. "It is important to distinguish between those who emphasize the differences between biological and cultural evolution, and those who oppose any kind of evolutionary approach to culture. The latter extreme position holds that cultural change does not resemble biological evolution in any respect, that no parallels can (or should) be drawn between biological evolution and cultural change...this position is both theoretically and empirically untenable." https://lnkd.in/dTgbgan View in LinkedIn