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- Dec 2023
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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we are certainly special I mean 00:02:57 no other animal rich the moon or know how to build atom bombs so we are definitely quite different from chimpanzees and elephants and and all the rest of the animals but we are still 00:03:09 animals you know many of our most basic emotions much of our society is still run on Stone Age code
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for: stone age code, similar to - Ronald Wright - computer metaphor, evolutionary psychology - examples, evolutionary paradox of modernity, evolution - last mile link, major evolutionary transition - full spectrum in modern humans, example - MET - full spectrum embedded in modern humans
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- evolutionary paradox of modernity
- modern humans , like all the living species we share the world with, are the last mile link of the evolution of life we've made it to the present, so all species of the present are, in an evolutionary sense, winners of their respective evolutionary game
- this means that all our present behaviors contain the full spectrum of the evolutionary history of 4 billion years of life
- the modern human embodies all major evolutionary transitions of the past
- so our behavior, at all levels of our being is a complex and heterogenous mixture of evolutionary adaptations from different time periods of the 4 billion years that life has taken to evolve.
- Some behaviors may have originated billions of years ago, and others hundred thousand years ago.
- evolutionary paradox of modernity
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Examples: humans embody full spectrum of METs in our evolutionary past
- fight and flight response
- early hominids on African Savannah hundreds of thousands to millions of years ago when hominids were predated upon by wild predators
- cancer
- normative intercell communication breaks down and reverts to individual cell behavior from billions of years ago
- see Michael Levin's research on how to make metastatic cancer cells return to normative collective, cooperative behavior
- normative intercell communication breaks down and reverts to individual cell behavior from billions of years ago
- children afraid to sleep in the dark
- evolutionary adaptation against dangerous animals that might have hid in the dark - dangerous insiects, snakes, etc, which in the past may have resulted in human fatalities
- obesity
- hunter gatherer hominid attraction to rich sources of fruit. Eating as much of it as we can and maybe harvesting as much as we can and carrying that with us.
- like squirrels storing away for the winter.
- hunter gatherer hominid attraction to rich sources of fruit. Eating as much of it as we can and maybe harvesting as much as we can and carrying that with us.
- fight and flight response
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- Oct 2023
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www.frontiersin.org www.frontiersin.org
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In this paper, we reconsider the major events in the history of life on Earth, from the first cells to the recent technological developments of human societies. We focus primarily on which METs identified by Maynard Smith and Szathmáry (1995) have produced MSTs, either directly or in combination with MCTs and catalysts. In reexamining these major transitions, we also highlight the importance of information for both the METs and the resulting MSTs, and speculate upon the role that Level V dark information may play in a future major transition.
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for: research goal, research goal - METs that produce MST for life on earth
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- This paper considers the major events in the history of life on Earth,
- from the first cells
- to the recent technological developments of human societies.
- The focus is primarily on which METs identified by Maynard Smith and Szathmáry (1995) have produced MSTs, either
- directly or
- in combination with MCTs and catalysts.
- In reexamining these major transitions, the authors also highlight the importance of information for both
- the METs and
- the resulting MSTs,
- and speculate upon the role that Level V dark information may play in a future major transition.
- This paper considers the major events in the history of life on Earth,
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we: (1) Introduce a more inclusive set of terminology to improve future discourse on major transitions (Figure 1), and (2) explore how major ecosystem transitions arise within broad frameworks
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for: MET, METs, METs - more inclusive terminology
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- the authors
- Introduce a more inclusive set of terminology to improve future discourse on major transitions, and
- explore how major ecosystem transitions arise within broad frameworks that can include
- multiple Fusions and Information Leaps,
- morphological innovations,
- catalytic actors and events, and
- variation in the selective processes involved.
- the authors
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there are two broad classes of adaptations that qualify as gains in “organismal complexity” and constitute METs.
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for: definition, definition - fusions, definition - information leap, organismal complexity, fusions, information leap, traditional METs
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- there are two classes of adaptations that qualify as gains in organismal complexity and constitute traditional METs:
- definition start: fusion
- a process whereby independently reproducing entities are incentivized into combining into higher, integrated levels of obligate reproductive cooperation, due to factors such as:
- selective advantages of division of labor and mutual dependence.
- maximization of inclusive fitness
- ability to punish cheaters
- a process whereby independently reproducing entities are incentivized into combining into higher, integrated levels of obligate reproductive cooperation, due to factors such as:
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- definition start: information leap
- novel forms of information storage or transmittal across individuals, ranging from
- genes
- symbolic writing
- novel forms of information storage or transmittal across individuals, ranging from
- definition end
- definition start: fusion
- there are two classes of adaptations that qualify as gains in organismal complexity and constitute traditional METs:
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- definition - fusions
- organismal complexity - information leap
- organismal complexity
- definition
- information leap
- key research goal
- traditional METs
- METs - more inclusive terminology
- fusions
- organismal complexity - fusions
- key research goal - METs that product MST
- definition - information leap
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- May 2016
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The Mets and Nationals are the two most recent winners of the National League East, and in MLB.com's preseason poll of writers, they combined to collect 100 percent of the votes to win it again in 2016. So as the first-place Nationals head to Queens for the first head-to-head matchup between the two clubs this year, all eyes are on what's become one of the sport's most highly regarded rivalries. (All due respect, Phillies. Keep up the good work.) That alone would make for an interesting evening no matter what, but through luck, design, or both, each team is going to kick off this series with 2016's best fastball on the mound. That's not a typo or a mistake, even though it sounds impossible, by definition. Noah Syndergaard has baseball's most elite heater. So does Max Scherzer. You get to see them both on the same mound on Tuesday night. Baseball is great.
As a longtime Mets fan, I am really worried. I know last year they took dive in May and came back in the end, but this year the Phillies--and maybe even the Marlins--will be in the mix, too. Time to get serious in Queens.
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