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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

FASTER ADOPTION. "The fast pace of change on the internet means we are adopting more words faster than ever before. Language itself changes slowly, but the internet has sped up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly." https://lnkd.in/dKdj57e View in LinkedIn

"AN ALPHABET SOUP of acronyms, abbreviations, and neologisms has grown up around technologically mediated communication to help us be understood." https://lnkd.in/dBD8zjV View in LinkedIn

CYBERLINGUISTICS is evolving before our eyes. The younger generation are using emotion" " symbols in shorthand for words, as they text rather than speak. We are witnessing the evolution of a new social language. "Some chat and instant message programs will automatically translate text smiley faces into graphical emoticons. The word emoticon is defined as a pictorial representation of a facial expression." https://lnkd.in/dxuYKmQ View in LinkedIn

IMPACT ON IDENTITY. "Friendship interaction and peer-to-peer relations are increasingly conducted online or through text messaging. Such interactions have had major cultural consequences. Texting and online communications have influenced the evolution of language. They have thrown up new rituals and symbols and have had an important impact on people’s identity—the young in particular." https://lnkd.in/d8-nHvR View in LinkedIn

RAPID CULTURAL CHANGE. "The influence of the Internet has been most significant in the way it has transformed the lives of young people. Their digital bedroom symbolizes a childhood that is significantly mediated through the social media, mobile phones and the Internet." https://lnkd.in/d8-nHvR View in LinkedIn