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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

PRIOR GENE EXPANSION. "Classes of transcription factors involved in animal development, such as HOX, SOX, POU, F-box, and T-box, emerged most likely before the divergence of the different bilaterian animals but after the split of the basal choanoflagellate lineage from the bilaterian lineage. These metazoan transcription factor classes greatly expanded through duplication in the bilaterian ancestor, just before the Cambrian “explosion”." https://lnkd.in/dTKCkih View in LinkedIn

BILATERALISM. "Close to the period of animal diversification prior to the Cambrian, the major classes of bilaterian regulatory genes greatly expanded." https://lnkd.in/dTKCkih View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes on the theme of the Cambrian explosion, this time focusing on some of the genetic findings that can help fill in the missing fossil record. View in LinkedIn

COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE. "Two of the things that make our species special is our collective intelligence and our cumulative culture. Our intelligence is collective because we live in large social networks. From avoiding the misery of boredom and isolation to solving complex problems, we actively seek to learn from others in important ways." https://lnkd.in/dwNsDzt View in LinkedIn

BEHAVIORAL INFLUENCERS. "The Internet and social media are very powerful tools that can influence and shape human behavior." https://lnkd.in/d8-nHvR View in LinkedIn