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Glyn Moody<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAHA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAHA</span></a> wellness influencers hype raw milk and rotting meat - <a href="https://boingboing.net/2025/02/21/maha-wellness-influencers-hype-raw-milk-and-rotten-meat.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">boingboing.net/2025/02/21/maha</span><span class="invisible">-wellness-influencers-hype-raw-milk-and-rotten-meat.html</span></a> excellent news, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/darwinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>darwinian</span></a> selection can kick in....</p>
Philo Sophies<p>Life as an <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/autopoietic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autopoietic</span></a> <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/system" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>system</span></a> - Attempt of a <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/structure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structure</span></a>-<a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/realistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>realistic</span></a> elucidation -</p><p>Part 2 "<a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/Theories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Theories</span></a> of <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> in a <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/structural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structural</span></a> <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/realist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>realist</span></a> view"</p><p>For this purpose I would like to describe first of all the initial problem in the <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/Darwinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Darwinian</span></a> <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theory</span></a> of evolution, which can be regarded as an example of the "<a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/underdetermination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>underdetermination</span></a> of <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/empirical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empirical</span></a> theories by the <a href="https://planetearth.social/tags/evidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evidence</span></a>" (Bas van Fraassen).</p><p>More on: <a href="https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/07/08/evolutionstheorien-in-einer-strukturenrealistischen-betrachtung/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">philosophies.de/index.php/2022</span><span class="invisible">/07/08/evolutionstheorien-in-einer-strukturenrealistischen-betrachtung/</span></a></p>
Glyn Moody<p>Shrinking trees and tuskless elephants: the strange ways species are adapting to humans - <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/06/evolution-species-adapt-response-humanity-tuskless-elephants-natural-world-wildlife-aoe" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">25/jan/06/evolution-species-adapt-response-humanity-tuskless-elephants-natural-world-wildlife-aoe</span></a> nice demo of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/darwinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>darwinian</span></a> selection processes...</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>This lovely summary of the wonders of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Darwinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Darwinian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NaturalSelection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalSelection</span></a> set to some <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RageAgainstTheMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RageAgainstTheMachine</span></a> comes from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mattstorerhere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mattstorerhere</span></a> on Instagram.</p>
Sam<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://stranger.social/@wiseguyeddie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wiseguyeddie</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>luckytran</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Darwinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Darwinian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> in action. By their choices they severally injure their own tribe, maiming most, shortening their life spans, and reducing reproductive success, allmg with many dying as a result.</p><p>If only evolution were a bit faster..</p>
Preston MacDougall<p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ShippensburgUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShippensburgUniversity</span></a> in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Pennsylvania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pennsylvania</span></a> is seeing its enrollment steadily decline. This worrying trend is expected to worsen despite the ‘Ship’ Raiders crushing the competition in Division II Men’s and Women’s <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/FieldHockey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FieldHockey</span></a> most years. How could this be happening?! 🤔 </p><p>The looming <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/EnrollmentCliff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnrollmentCliff</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Darwinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Darwinian</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a>. 👉 <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23428166/college-enrollment-population-education-crash" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vox.com/the-highlight/23428166</span><span class="invisible">/college-enrollment-population-education-crash</span></a></p>
Mikko Tuomi<p>Assembly theory might point to new directions in understanding molecular <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>complexity</span></a>.</p><p>One of the problems for origin-of-life theories is that there seems to be a gap between the raw ingredients of the prebiotic Earth and the complexity of even the most primitive molecular systems capable of <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Darwinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Darwinian</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/biochemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biochemistry</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/astrobiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astrobiology</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/will-the-assembly-theory-imbroglio-do-anything-for-evolution/4018232.article" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">chemistryworld.com/opinion/wil</span><span class="invisible">l-the-assembly-theory-imbroglio-do-anything-for-evolution/4018232.article</span></a></p>
sollat<p>So far it’s been flower on, flower off, but I *might* have my first eggplant growing! </p><p>I started it indoors and it was doing nothing. I moved it outside because I thought it might die faster, but it seems to like outside better anyway.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gardening</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Darwinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Darwinian</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SometimesAnEggplantIsJustAnEggplant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SometimesAnEggplantIsJustAnEggplant</span></a> </p><p>Fairy Tale (F1) Eggplant <br>Mini-Eggplant</p>
Lynn Chiu<p>A <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/thread" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thread</span></a> of recent papers coauthored by Eörs Szathmáry on learning and evolution, covering Darwinian principles in the immune system, brain, Bayesian learning theory.</p><p>Mentioned in today's <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/KLIAustria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KLIAustria</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/KLIColloquium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KLIColloquium</span></a> talk.</p><p><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/ecoevo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecoevo</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EvolutionaryBiology</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/EvolutionaryAlgorithm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EvolutionaryAlgorithm</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Darwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Darwin</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Darwinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Darwinian</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Learning</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/LearningTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LearningTheory</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Bayesian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bayesian</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neuroscience</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/immunology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immunology</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/PaperThread" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaperThread</span></a> #</p>
Radical Anthropology<p>In our view,, the most important and influential book on human evolution this century is Sarah Hrdy's 'Mothers and Others' (2009, Harvard UP). Hrdy, a longstanding <a href="https://c.im/tags/Darwinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Darwinian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/feminist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feminist</span></a> should be far better known than any of the Pinkers, Hararis, Wranghams et al. She is way more knowledgeable about what made us human.</p><p>The focus in 'Mothers and others' is on the evolution of our mutual-mindreading capacities -- which are really not there in other great apes. She roots this in babysitting -- human mothers hand over young infants to the care of diverse others. She argues the onset of such childcare practice would emerge early Pleistocene with H erectus. The outcome of ability to mesh emotional states preceded and was the foundation for <a href="https://c.im/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> of <a href="https://c.im/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/evolutionaryanthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolutionaryanthropology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/cooperativechildcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cooperativechildcare</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/intersubjectivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intersubjectivity</span></a> <br> <br>Image description: cover of Mothers and others with a baby being lifted high in a carer's arms (who may not be actual mother)<br><a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Mothers_and_Others.html?id=dsiksDFQPDsC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=kp_read_button&amp;hl=en&amp;newbks=1&amp;newbks_redir=0&amp;gboemv=1&amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books.google.co.uk/books/about</span><span class="invisible">/Mothers_and_Others.html?id=dsiksDFQPDsC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=kp_read_button&amp;hl=en&amp;newbks=1&amp;newbks_redir=0&amp;gboemv=1&amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false</span></a></p>
⎯ΘωΘ⟶<p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Memetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Memetics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/says" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>says</span></a>:<br /><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/study" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>study</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>information</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/and" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>and</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>culture</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/based" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>based</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/on" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>on</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/analogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>analogy</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/with" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>with</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Darwinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Darwinian</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>evolution</span></a>. <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Describe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Describe</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/memetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>memetics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/as" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>as</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/an" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>an</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/approach" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>approach</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/to" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>to</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/evolutionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>evolutionary</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/models" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>models</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/of" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>of</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/cultural" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cultural</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>information</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/transfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>transfer</span></a>. <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Describe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Describe</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/how" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>how</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/an" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>an</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/idea" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>idea</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/can" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>can</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/propagate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>propagate</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/successfully" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>successfully</span></a>, <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/but" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>but</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/do" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>do</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/not" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>not</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/necessarily" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>necessarily</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/imply" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>imply</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/a" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>a</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/concept" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>concept</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/is" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>is</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/factual" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>factual</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Critics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Critics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/retort" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>retort</span></a>:<br /><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/The" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>The</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>theory</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/is" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>is</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/untested" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>untested</span></a>, <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/unsupported" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>unsupported</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/or" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>or</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/incorrect" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>incorrect</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Memetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Memetics</span></a>&#39; <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Face" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Face</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/When" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>When</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/AndSoOn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AndSoOn</span></a></p>
Khurram Wadee ✅<p>We’re witnessing <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Darwinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Darwinian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> in action but we needn’t be passive observers in this battle. It makes sense both on an individual and societal level to get <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/vaccinated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccinated</span></a>, interestingly from both a selfish and altruistic standpoint.</p>
Glyn Moody<p>Hancock: most Bolton Covid patients eligible for jab but haven’t had it - <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/16/hancock-defends-india-travel-ban-delay-as-covid-variant-cases-mount" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2021/may</span><span class="invisible">/16/hancock-defends-india-travel-ban-delay-as-covid-variant-cases-mount</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/darwinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>darwinian</span></a> selection continues...</p>