Re Larmarkian evolution, cultural evolution is usually considered to be
an examplar of Lamarkian evolution. Knowledge accumulated in one life
is passed onto the next via books, or in the very olden day oral
stories.
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On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote:
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> least in the classic sense of changing – i.e. mutating – the underlyin
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Russell Standish wrote:
> Re Larmarkian evolution, cultural evolution is usually considered to be
> an examplar of Lamarkian evolution. Knowledge accumulated in one life is
> passed onto the next via books, or in the very olden day oral stories.
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Yes but even the
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 12:36:27PM -0400, John Clark wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Russell Standish
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> > Re Larmarkian evolution, cultural evolution is usually considered to be
> > an examplar of Lamarkian evolution. Knowledge accumulated in one life is
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John, Russell ~ Speaking from the perspective of information science, one
can abstract out the underlying information encoding scheme(s), actually
employed by life & by conscious self-aware life as well, which could be any
number of suitable candidates. We know of three known currently employed
enc
Hi Chris and John
The paper I linked to describes a evolutionary dynamic which emphasizes
horizontal over vertical genetic transfer. I think it is described in the paper
as Lamarckian because changes to the coding mechanism can occur in their model
within a single generation of organisms rathe
Hello Chris ~ When one factors in group dynamics in addition to the
individual ones at play it is as you suggest more nuanced. I have heard this
survival of the community dynamics being used to suggest why for example we
still have behaviors such as altruism still quite common amongst members of
ou
On 8/11/2013 7:55 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote:
I would not be surprised to find that there is evidence of cross species conglomerates
of organisms that have evolved to survive together, in other words that the Darwinian
selection mechanism could potentially be extended to take into account both
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