Without Miracle : Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution by Gary Cziko - ISBN 026253147X - MIT Press - 1995
Motivation
Reading The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins and his closing chapter on memetics, leading to a more general view on the theory of selection.
Pre-reading model
Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain before having read the book.
Reading
See also
- my notes on The Things We Do
- Seedea:Content/Newconcepts#QuantumDarwinism
- Wikipedia:Universal Darwinism
- Ontophylogenèse by Jean-Jacques Kupiec, ENS February 2010
- Nature, Nurture, or Chance: Stochastic Gene Expression and Its Consequences by Arjun Raj and Alexander van Oudenaarden, Cell 2008
- Stochastic Gene Expression in a Single Cell by Michael B. Elowitz, Arnold J. Levine, Eric D. Siggia and Peter S. Swain, Science 2002
New concepts
- exapted
- ~=preadapted
- Gould & Lewontin (1979)
- interactors
- http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/g-cziko/wm/10.html#Heading13
- organisms or groups of organisms can be considered to be the interactors on the stage of evolution, and it is at the level of interactors that selection takes place.
- interactors who, in cultural evolution, are human agents who in interaction with their environments determine which memes are to be selected and, consequently, replicated.
- See Hull (1988a, pp. 28ff.)
- "interactor-environment interface" seems very close to my Interface notion (cf whiteboard)
Overall remarks and questions
- this? that?
Synthesis
So in the end, it was about X and was based on Y.
Critics
Point A, B and C are debatable because of e, f and j.
Vocabulary
(:new_vocabulary_start:) obeisance abhorrence oxen to plow monsoon covetousness replete smokestack to garner vicarious foretold winnowing sundry ordeal impinge expletive conundrum calf (:new_vocabulary_end:)
Post-reading model
Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain after having read the book. Link it to the pre-reading model and align the two to help easy comparison.
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