what you're asking is, for example, how new mutations arise, since the space of genetic possibility is so huge. simply random variations would take too longe etc. best treatment of those I've seen around is this:https://www.amazon.com/Arrival-Fittest-How-Nature-Innovates/dp/1617230219 …
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @EmojiPan and
Seems interesting, although the reviews say it doesn't deliver, tho maybe just read Deleuze or something. Heterogenesis and becoming offer an interesting anti-darwinian account of "evolution".
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @EmojiPan and
Trees vs. Rhizomes The opposition is misleading tho, but it does boil down to a question of heredity and filiation. Once filiation, or influence from the outside, is factored in variation is no longer defined from a single point searching its own space of possibilities.
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Replying to @Psychonothing1 @cyborg_nomade and
I think the tree vs network (rhizome) distinction is domain-specific. For example, ideas are easy to recombine, hence they form a phylogenetic network, while biological evolution is more tree-like.
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Replying to @higherOrderNet @cyborg_nomade and
True, but they explicitly oppose the treepicture of evolution by pointing out the influence of contagion and symbioses in the changes of species. Though I agree it is mostly treelike, to which they add the rhizome, as the treepicture misses stuff.
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Replying to @Psychonothing1 @higherOrderNet and
There are some intriguing rhizomatic complications at the margins of most cladistic structures -- but D&G vastly over-rate their consequence.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Psychonothing1 and
... For instance, their beloved "c-virus" (retrotranscription) doesn't scramble the genetic record very much.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Psychonothing1 and
Are you guys still on this hell-thread? Can you come up with a new feud topic that get us all excited again?
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @Outsideness and
you clearly don't understand hellthreads
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That's the insult your mum always shoots at me.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @cyborg_nomade and
HOW IS IT STILL IN MY FEED
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Replying to @great_old_ones_ @cyborg_nomade and
your obsession with mum jokes is truly disturbing.
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