The Coevolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Coevolution write by Edward Ashford Lee. This book was released on 2020-03-25. The Coevolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Should digital technology be viewed as a new life form, sharing our ecosystem and coevolving with us? Are humans defining technology, or is technology defining humans? In this book, Edward Ashford Lee considers the case that we are less in control of the trajectory of technology than we think. It shapes us as much as we shape it, and it may be more defensible to think of technology as the result of a Darwinian coevolution than the result of top-down intelligent design. Richard Dawkins famously said that a chicken is an egg's way of making another egg. Is a human a computer's way of making another computer? To understand this question requires a deep dive into how evolution works, how humans are different from computers, and how the way technology develops resembles the emergence of a new life form on our planet. Lee presents the case for considering digital beings to be living, then offers counterarguments. What we humans do with our minds is more than computation, and what digital systems do—be teleported at the speed of light, backed up, and restored—may never be possible for humans. To believe that we are simply computations, he argues, is a “dataist” faith and scientifically indefensible. Digital beings depend on humans—and humans depend on digital beings. More likely than a planetary wipe-out of humanity is an ongoing, symbiotic coevolution of culture and technology.
Coevolution
Coevolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coevolution write by William H. Durham. This book was released on 1991. Coevolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Charles Darwin's "On the Origins of Species" had two principal goals: to show that species had not been separately created and to show that natural selection had been the main force behind their proliferation and descent from common ancestors. In "Coevolution," the author proposes a powerful new theory of cultural evolution--that is, of the descent with modification of the shared conceptual systems we call "cultures"--that is parallel in many ways to Darwin's theory of organic evolution. The author suggests that a process of cultural selection, or preservation by preference, driven chiefly by choice or imposition depending on the circumstances, has been the main but not exclusive force of cultural change. He shows that this process gives rise to five major patterns or "modes" in which cultural change is at odds with genetic change. Each of the five modes is discussed in some detail and its existence confirmed through one or more case studies chosen for their heuristic value, the robustness of their data, and their broader implications. But "Coevolution" predicts not simply the existence of the five modes of gene-culture relations; it also predicts their relative importance in the ongoing dynamics of cultural change in particular cases. The case studies themselves are lucid and innovative reexaminations of an array of oft-pondered anthropological topics--plural marriage, sickle-cell anemia, basic color terms, adult lactose absorption, incest taboos, headhunting, and cannibalism. In a general case, the author's goal is to demonstrate that an evolutionary analysis of both genes and culture has much to contribute to our understanding of human diversity, particularly behavioral diversity, and thus to the resolution of age-old questions about nature and nurture, genes and culture.
The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution
The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution write by John N. Thompson. This book was released on 2005-06-15. The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Coevolution—reciprocal evolutionary change in interacting species driven by natural selection—is one of the most important ecological and genetic processes organizing the earth's biodiversity: most plants and animals require coevolved interactions with other species to survive and reproduce. The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution analyzes how the biology of species provides the raw material for long-term coevolution, evaluates how local coadaptation forms the basic module of coevolutionary change, and explores how the coevolutionary process reshapes locally coevolving interactions across the earth's constantly changing landscapes. Picking up where his influential The Coevolutionary Process left off, John N. Thompsonsynthesizes the state of a rapidly developing science that integrates approaches from evolutionary ecology, population genetics, phylogeography, systematics, evolutionary biochemistry and physiology, and molecular biology. Using models, data, and hypotheses to develop a complete conceptual framework, Thompson also draws on examples from a wide range of taxa and environments, illustrating the expanding breadth and depth of research in coevolutionary biology.
Coevolution
Coevolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coevolution write by Alec Newald. This book was released on 1998-10. Coevolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alec Newald was surpised to learn that a three-hour drive to Auckland, New Zealand, had taken him ten days to complete. When his memories returned he realized that he had been whisked from the road and taken to an extraterrestrial civilization. This book recounts his tale.
The Coevolution of Climate and Life
The Coevolution of Climate and Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Coevolution of Climate and Life write by Stephen Henry Schneider. This book was released on 1984. The Coevolution of Climate and Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
