Evolution
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But I always have to start my classes by dispelling some hardwired myths, because without really knowing it, many of us were taught
evolution
wrong.
For instance, we're taught to say "the theory of evolution."
Evolution
is as simple as that, and it's a fact.
Evolution
is a fact as much as the "theory of gravity."
But we're always shown
evolution
portrayed something like this, a monkey and a chimpanzee, some extinct humans, all on a forward and steady march to becoming us.
We're also not the goal of
evolution.
Why do we need to understand
evolution
the right way?
Well, misunderstanding
evolution
has led to many problems, but you can't ask that age-old question, "Where are we from?" without understanding
evolution
the right way.
If you look out on the eight million species that we share this planet with, think of them all being four billion years of
evolution.
Well, to do that, we can follow the strategy of nature, because with evolution, she's done a pretty good job in designing machines for environment interaction.
But of course, we are not even close to what nature figured out in millions of years of
evolution.
Perhaps biofabrication is a natural
evolution
of manufacturing for mankind.
I believe this starts with an
evolution
of existing methods.
"The vocal chords will be eliminated by a process of
evolution
as was the tail of man when he came from the ape."
In biology, we look for rules that apply to all animals and to life in general, so why should the rules of
evolution
apply to everybody else but not to us?
So I think this explains why the human brain grew to become so large so fast in evolution, all of the while remaining just a primate brain.
Just as there was a point in your development as a child when your sense of self and of time became sophisticated enough for you to realize you were mortal, so at some point in the
evolution
of our species, some early human's sense of self and of time became sophisticated enough for them to become the first human to realize, "I'm going to die."
And here we have a view of
evolution
where rather than having
evolution
go over the linear time, we have it coming out from the center.
And if we take the long-term trends of life, if we begin to say, what does
evolution
want?
One of the things about
evolution
is that nowhere on Earth have we ever been where we don't find life.
And so the general, long-term trends of
evolution
are roughly these five: ubiquity, diversity, specialization, complexity and socialization.
So the major trends in technology
evolution
actually are the same as in biological
evolution.
That is maybe not a big surprise because if we map out, say, the
evolution
of armor, you can actually follow a sort of an evolutionary-type cladistic tree.
So all these steps in
evolution
are increasing, basically, the
evolution
of evolvability.
You see, technology is a way to evolve the
evolution.
So to conclude, we can say that research in the humanities is about to undergo an
evolution
which is maybe similar to what happened to life sciences 30 years ago.
What we're talking here is not about a sexual revolution, but a sexual evolution, learning from other parts of the world, adapting to local conditions, forging our own path, not following one blazed by another.
Now, since Darwin's day there's been what Cacilda and I have called the standard narrative of human sexual evolution, and you're all familiar with it, even if you haven't read this stuff.
Historical records are full of accounts of people around the world who have sexual practices that should be impossible given what we have assumed about human sexual
evolution.
But also I inevitably end up thinking about what a masterpiece they are, finely tuned by millions of years of
evolution.
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