Are there enough cultural evolution deniers that it would be useful to do a post explaining it and linking to good intro sources?
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
"Read this 162-page thesis about the development of the rudder and then tell me there's no cultural evolution oh you're not going to huh"
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing The question is whether technological evolution is the whole of cultural evolution ...1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Outsideness
@sarahdoingthing ... or, indeed, even counter-balanced by socio-political devolution.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @Outsideness
@Outsideness evolution makes no such distinctions ;) BUT harm-to-host may correlate with non-kin transmissibility1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing Surely worth distinguishing between the evolution of the rudder and the evolution of intersectional sensitivity? ...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Outsideness
@sarahdoingthing ... With the former, you end up with a better rudder. With the latter, you end up with a ruined civilization.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@Outsideness evolution works on all time scales - each selective sweep wipes out some time-tested but less immediately useful information
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