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The Limits of Evolutionary Pressure

2020.05.30 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Industrial melanism, tan and near-black versions of the scalloped hazel moth, Odontopera bidentata

Industrial melanism illustrates evolutionary pressure/selection pressure. But in punctuated equilibria and large evolution, selection pressure won’t work.

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Posted in: Biology, Books Tagged: Darwin Dada, Evolution, Large Evolution, Small Evolution, Sociobiology

Microevolution, Macroevolution, Small Evolution, Large Evolution

2020.05.18 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Archaeopteryx fossil.

Punctuated equilibria makes a case for shifting from microevolution & macroevolution, to ‘small evolution’ & ‘large evolution.’

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Posted in: Biology, Books Tagged: Darwin Dada, Evolution, Small Evolution

The Deadliest Animal vs the Best Predator

2020.03.10 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Best Predator

What is the deadliest animal in America?  And is the best predator the deadliest animal, or the most beneficial?

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Posted in: Biology, Books Tagged: Darwin Dada, Evolution, Small Evolution

Character Displacement, Language Replacement

2020.03.10 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
A jumble of letters, like the jumble of language

Character displacement in biology is similar to language replacement in linguisitics: languages compete, evolve, and even go extinct.

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Posted in: Biology, Books Tagged: Darwin Dada, Evolution, Small Evolution, Sociobiology

Biological Evolution & Language Evolution

2020.03.03 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Language evolution: Tree showing the relationship of Uralic languages, and languages descended from Proto-Indo-European

Language evolution can resemble biological evolution. This is an example of how biology can provide insights about innovation in non-biochemical systems.

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Posted in: Biology, Books Tagged: Civilizing Evolution, Darwin Dada, Evolution, fundamentalism, Language, Small Evolution, Sociobiology

The Struggle for Existence: The Lovely Deathscape

2020.02.24 by Bookscrounger 7 Comments
Dead bird on the ground

Nature is beautiful, but it’s really a lovely deathscape: the struggle for existence is everywhere, and only the trees die of old age.

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Posted in: Biology, Books Tagged: Darwin Dada, Evolution, Small Evolution

Biomimicry & The Ideal Free Distribution

2020.02.10 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
A complex, biologically inspired motorcycle frame.

Biomimicry is a complicated attempt to arrive at the simple, natural solutions that result from the Ideal Free Distribution.

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Posted in: Biology, Books, Medicine Tagged: Darwin Dada, Evolution, Sociobiology

The Need for Biologists in Public Policy; The Bourgeois Strategy

2020.01.22 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
A da Vinci-like drawing showing the spiral of a nautilus shell and its relation to the Golden Mean/Golden Spiral.

The input of biologists in public policy can help us understand the disruptions of human progress; one example is ‘the bourgeois strategy’.

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Posted in: Biology, Politics Tagged: Anger Mongering, Darwin Dada, Evolution, Partisan Politics

Biological Numbers, Astronomical Numbers

2019.12.03 by Bookscrounger 2 Comments
The Tarantula Nebula and the Ebola Virus

We marvel over astronomical numbers, but by asking ‘How many cells on Earth?’ we see that biological numbers are vastly larger.

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Posted in: Biology, Books Tagged: Darwin Dada, Evolution

Compassion vs Survival, & Pragmatism

2015.11.27 by Bookscrounger 2 Comments
Painting of The Good Samaritan by George Frederic Watts

We think of compassion as a universal moral position, but when the choice is compassion or survival, pragmatism will always win out.

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Posted in: Biology, Politics Tagged: Civilizing Evolution, Darwin Dada, Evolution, Kings Conquerors Psychopaths, Liberal and Conservative, Sociobiology

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