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CHANGES IN THINKING. "This shift is clear in the writings of Bill McKibben, who talks frequently about balance, but about balance with nature, not balance of nature, and how humankind is headed towards a catastrophic future if it does not act promptly and radically to rebalance society with nature." http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001963 View in LinkedIn

SYMBIOSIS with ancient microorganisms created our mitochondria, our nucleus, and the chloroplasts of photosynthetic creatures. This resulted in the sharing of big chunks of genes with the host, and a huge leap forward for eukaryotes. View in LinkedIn

COOPERATION MODEL. Margulis and Sagan: "the view of evolution as chronic bloody competition…dissolves before a new view of continual cooperation…Life did not take over the globe by combat, but by networking." https://lnkd.in/dNEtvR8 View in LinkedIn

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BALANCE OF NATURE. "The idea that there is a "balance of nature" is commonly held by biologists. They feel that the organisms in a community are harmoniously adjusted to one another so that a state of dynamic equilibrium exists." https://lnkd.in/dK-66Q6 View in LinkedIn

MODEL OPTIMIZATION. "The learning process optimises the fit of the model to the observations (or minimises the discrepancy between the model and the observations) by incrementally adjusting the parameters of the model." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

CAUSTIC CRITICISM. "Slobodkin's statement may well be the most thoroughly falsified hypothesis still current in population biology. A survey of the literature fails to disclaim se a single case of a natural population behaving in the manner described." An outlier opinion. https://lnkd.in/dK-66Q6 View in LinkedIn

ANALOGOUS SYSTEMS. "We argue that the different consequences of this feedback in evolutionary systems (affecting developmental, ecological and reproductive networks) have specific analogues in different applications of correlation learning (namely, reinforcement correlation learning, unsupervised correlation learning and deep correlation learning, respectively) that help us to understand how natural selection changes the processes of variation, selection and inheritance, respectively, in evolutionary systems." 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

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