Selection
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Think of it as evolution not by natural selection, but evolution by design.
Remember, natural
selection
happens not at the organism level, but at the genetic level, and the same gene that exists in one organism will also exist in its relatives.
One of the most difficult things to keep in mind about evolution is that when we say things like, "Genes want to make more copies of themselves," or even, "natural selection," we're actually using metaphors.
This fighting hypothesis, where an imbalance in the population results in an advantage for left-handed fighters or athletes, is an example of negative frequency-dependent
selection.
If people were only fighting and competing throughout human evolution, natural
selection
would lead to more lefties being the ones that made it until there were so many of them, that it was no longer a rare asset.
Now that we have a new generation of phrases, we can apply
selection
using an operation called a fitness function.
In prehistoric times, natural
selection
favored genotypes that could endure harsh conditions by stocking the most fat.
Rare earths are a
selection
of 17 elements that are actually common in Earth’s crust and are found in many areas across the world in low concentrations.
See, for four billion years, what lived and died on this planet depended on two principles: on natural
selection
and random mutation.
And what we've done is created this completely parallel evolutionary system where we are practicing unnatural
selection
and non-random mutation.
This is natural
selection.
This is unnatural
selection.
And you're doing that through unnatural
selection.
If some escape, natural
selection
just takes care of them.
Just like I would in my business life, I have based the
selection
of who would support me with my children while I'm at work on a strong referral.
And when evolutionary biologists talk about design, they really mean design by natural
selection.
And when you have that, then evolutionary theory tells us that natural
selection
will favor the more exploitative, more predator-like organisms.
So, natural
selection
will favor organisms that are more likely to cause damage.
So, if the pathogen doesn't need the host to be healthy and active, and actual
selection
favors pathogens that take advantage of those hosts, the winners in the competition are those that exploit the hosts for their own reproductive success.
I know you know the idea, natural selection, but let me just paraphrase "The Origin of Species," 1859, in a few sentences.
Well, the principle here applies to anything that is copied with variation and
selection.
This is information copied with variation and
selection.
Copying with variation and
selection.
We put the storage of memes out there on a clay tablet, but in order to get true temes and true teme machines, you need to get the variation, the
selection
and the copying, all done outside of humans.
It's a
selection
of a random bunch of the stuff that I do.
Over many generations of selection, skin color in those regions gradually lightened.
Through the careful
selection
of furniture, lighting and acoustic materials to support eating together; in the careful visual location and visual access to kids' play areas around and inside the common house; in the consideration of scale and distribution of social gathering nodes in and around the community to support our daily lives, all of these spaces help contribute to and elevate the sense of communitas in each community.
He couldn't explain it with his theory of natural selection, and out of this frustration, he developed the theory of sexual
selection.
The
selection
criteria for reproductive success from that time doesn't really apply today.
They've made a
selection.
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