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From: LizR <lizj...@gmail.com>
To: everything-list@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: Atheist
On 25 July 2014 11:27, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
And in any case 'natural selection' would just be replaced by 'cultural
selection' - which is natural.
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>>What is 'cultural selection' ?
An ape figures out how to insert a palm frond down into a termite nest and is
able to harvest a bonanza of good termite protein... soon other apes in the
vicinity begin mimicking the original "creative" ape... with some of them
learning how to perform this new neat trick (others ignoring it and still
others failing to master the new skill)... in time -- if compelling enough --
the idea spreads throughout the larger grouping of culturally inter-acting apes
and many of the members of the larger inter-acting group learn the new valuable
technique.... mother apes (who have mastered the termite feeding learned
behavior) begin teaching their own offspring this new valuable survival skill.
After some generations the culturally learned technique is firmly established
in this particular ape sub-culture, while remaining absent in other ape
sub-cultures of the same species that have not been exposed to this new
cultural evolution.
A successful *cultural innovation* will spread (or conversely fail to
propagate) in a similar manner (through a different modality of course) as
biologically encoded evolution.
Good ideas -- i.e. those with high survival fitness -- will tend to spread
through an interacting group of individuals in a given culture, who are in
fairly close contact with each other. Sometimes bad ideas will spread, but it
is rarer.
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