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CULTURAL TRAITS. "Some treatments of cultural evolution (e.g., sociobiology and evolutionary psychology) consider how cultural traits evolve due to their effect on biological fitness. But one can also consider how cultural traits evolve in their own right, as Dawkins did when he coined the word “meme"." https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn

CO-EVOLUTION. "All this suggests that machines might play an unprecedented role in the next major evolutionary transition, and the challenge here is to predict and explain this role." https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn

AUTONOMOUS MACHINES. "These machines will be as much a part of the natural world as features in the landscape or existing forms of life, and their evolution will affect the course of existing forms of life. Think of how machines are currently ramifying the nature and rate of human communication and interconnectedness." https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn

ENORMOUS TRANSITION. "Many agree it is only a matter of time before artificial life creates machines that are alive, are intelligent, reproduce their own kind, have their own purposes, set their own goals, and evolve autonomously." https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn

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