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Zach Garfield
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Aug 10, 2026
The Big Picture of Evolution and Human Behavior
What I want students to take away from my Evolution and Human Behavior course and how an evolutionary perspective changes the questions we ask.
evolution
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human-behavior
Zach Garfield
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Aug 10, 2026
The Big Picture of Evolution and Human Behavior
What I want students to take away from my Evolution and Human Behavior course and how an evolutionary perspective changes the questions we ask.
evolution
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human-behavior
gordonbrander.com
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Jun 17, 2026
Coordination technologies
In chronological* order: Kinship systems Religion Art Clothing/jewelry Music Gift exchange Language Oral recitation Written language Law Money Bureaucracy Voting Double-entry bookkeeping Facts Scientific method Peer review Printing Markets…
anthropocene
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coordination
Annotated
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May 14, 2026
The value is in the difficulty
On building software, vibe coding, and what happens to market prices when the barriers fall
software development
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product marketing
The Emu Café Social
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Apr 21, 2026
Development of the Anglerfish Lure
I am a long-time admirer of the anglerfish, one of the ocean's most aesthetic creatures. The University of Kansas news service published a news release about an open access study vt Alex J. Maile and Matthew P. Davis titled The Evolution of Lures in Anglerfishes (Acanthuriformes: Lophioidei): Investigating Nature's Tackle Box. The summary notes that...
anglerfish
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deep sea fish
Filae
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Feb 11, 2026
Paralogs
Seeing before LUCA. Most genes trace back to the Last Universal Common Ancestor (~4.2 billion years ago) and stop — a barrier beyond which we cannot see. But universal paralogs are different: rare gene families present in all organisms today that were duplicated BEFORE LUCA. Both copies were inherited by all descendants. These ancient pairs pierce through the barrier, letting us glimpse evolution that predates the origin of all modern life. All known universal paralogs involve protein synthesis or membrane transport — the oldest functions.
biology
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simulation
Tony Is Doing His Best
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Jan 19, 2026
0119: The Acid Trip Years
Having a kid is a real wild ride, man
parenting
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evolution
Tony Is Doing His Best
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Jan 14, 2026
0114: Senses Working Overtime
If you can read this, you may have already won
existentialism
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existence
gordonbrander.com
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Oct 28, 2025
Ecosystems are smarter than we are
Beer thought that ecosystems are smarter than we are—not in their representational cognitive abilities, but in their performative ability to solve problems that exceed our cognitive ones. The quote above is from Andrew Pickering, The Cybernetic…
cybernetics
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ecosystems
The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
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Jan 10, 2024
Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, and Power, Part 1 (Nirvikar Singh)
The following article is the first of three installments. It is published as a catalogued .PDF in article in the latest issue of the Journal for Cultural and
theoryPosts
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community
gordonbrander.com
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Sep 28, 2021
Requisite Variety
Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety: If a system is to be stable, the number of states of its control mechanism must be greater than or equal to the number of states in the system being controlled. Or: Only variety can absorb variety. Variety is a…
evolution
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systems
gordonbrander.com
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Sep 27, 2021
Capping downside diminishes opportunities for emergence
By capping downside, you limit the evolutionary search space. A short term win in preventing downside may lop off whole evolutionary branches that could contain massive upside. This tradeoff might be worth it, but it's hard to ever know, because…
evolution
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systems
gordonbrander.com
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Sep 27, 2021
Language is a Lamarckian cheatcode
The evolution of language is our Lamarckian cheat code. Learn some stuff, tell your kid. They start where you ended. Culture is a shared mechanism for problem solving Alphabets Evolution
evolution
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systems
gordonbrander.com
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Sep 26, 2021
Evolution is a diversification algorithm
Evolution is a diversification algorithm. We mistakenly think of evolution as an optimization algorithm. It's actually a diversification algorithm. From Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned : It’s popular to explain evolution as a process in which…
evolution
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systems
gordonbrander.com
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Sep 26, 2021
The boundary of an organism is defined by cooperation
An organism is a living system maintaining both a higher level of internal cooperation and a lower level of internal conflict than either its components or any larger systems of which it is a component. Fields, Levin, 2018, " Are Planaria…
coordination
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evolution
gordonbrander.com
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Dec 2, 2019
Building Block Hypothesis
The building block hypothesis (Goldberg): Genetic algorithms select for compact genes that encode impactful traits, because a short gene is less likely to be disrupted by mutation and crossover than is a long gene, which has more exposed surface…
evolution
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generative-design
gordonbrander.com
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Dec 1, 2019
Genetic algorithms
Genetic algorithm design patterns : Principle of Meaningful Building Blocks. Learn from the building block hypothesis and find a coding that can express short, low-order schemata that are relevant to the underlying problem and relatively unrelated…
evolution
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generative-design
gordonbrander.com
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Nov 24, 2019
Punctuated equilibrium
Complex systems exist in punctuated equilibrium, repeatedly evolving through distinct phases of randomness, growth, consolidation, and collapse. (Phase 1) Random : The system is unstructured. Random events occur without particularly changing the…
evolution
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generative-design
gordonbrander.com
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Nov 24, 2019
Ecology meta-patterns
Emergent patterns that recur in complex adaptive systems : Diversity Recirculation Niche and hierarchy Coevolution Diversity : an ecology is an economy made up of many currencies. Different species have different goals, and those goals interlock in…
evolution
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generative-design
gordonbrander.com
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Nov 24, 2019
Containment can lead to contagion
Containment can lead to contagion. David Stark Evolutionary niches carve out room for new tactics to incubate, then spread. One of the lessons from the theory of natural selection is that a degree of isolation can be a great help to a new strategy…
evolution
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systems
gordonbrander.com
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Dec 25, 2017
Provoking emergence
So how do you provoke emergence? It's a process of gardening, not architecture . Collecting patterns... Examples of emergent behavior Biological evolution Flocking Conway's Game of Life Wikipedia Etherpad + pirate party Minecraft urls and linking…
evolution
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generative-design
gordonbrander.com
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Dec 24, 2017
Evolution
Evolution is a behavior that emerges in any system that has: Mutation Heredity Selection Evolutionary systems often generate unexpected solutions. Nature selects for good enough. There is no such thing as advantageous in a general sense. There is…
evolution
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generative-design
Anil Dash
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Feb 14, 2012
Eddie, Then and Now
Apropos of nothing, I’ve become somewhat obsessed of late with the evolution of Eddie Murphy’s career and persona. Some relevant links: - An absolutely exceptional interview from 1990 by Spike Lee, from the issue of Spin that Spike guest edited (!) in October of that year. Fascinating to see the…
culture
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nostalgia
Philihp Busby
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Jan 12, 2009
Jellyfish Lake
Evolution
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