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praveenbm5  ·  3820 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: On Cyborgs, Laws, and Planetary Behaviour

Wonderful post! Coincidentally I was also thinking about the laws and principles of evolution for the past few days. The essence of it was described long back but i believe there is room for a better definition of Evolution. Currently my thoughts are wandering around - "Genesis of new genes, their survival and dissemination!" as an apt model for evolution than basing it on how life forms (individual beings) change, survive and reproduce.





theadvancedapes  ·  3819 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Wonderful post!

Thanks :)

I also feel as though ideas related to laws of evolution have been explored - but they haven't been built into a complete framework for evolution. And people seem to be hesitant to try and find some aspects of evolution that should hold no matter where it occurs in the universe. Obviously part of the problem is that we don't have a larger sample size of biospheres - but I think we should still make an attempt.

praveenbm5  ·  3818 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What are your thoughts about Genes and not individual species or organisms as the fundamental unit for analyzing and understanding evolution? I believe this approach opens up a whole new perspective where understanding any given behavior becomes more straight forward! Waiting for your feedback on Altruism & EP (Talkonomy.com)...

theadvancedapes  ·  3817 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    What are your thoughts about Genes and not individual species or organisms as the fundamental unit for analyzing and understanding evolution?

This was the basic thesis forwarded by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene so it has been a popular view for several decades now.

    I believe this approach opens up a whole new perspective where understanding any given behavior becomes more straight forward!

Yes, it is an important evolutionary perspective, as long as we remember that selection occurs on different biological levels as well.

praveenbm5  ·  3817 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was inspired into thinking on these lines after watching Mr. Dawkins documentary on the same. Yes, he was and is the foremost proponent of this idea but I feel we can improvise and deduce a set of laws (framework) that can explain evolution better and extend it to non-living processes too! My thoughts are still vague on this though!