Evolutionary scientists have long recognized that the cultural evolutionary process shares many non-arbitrary parallels
with biological evolutionary processes, and that these cultural evolutionary processes are uniquely manifest
in the human species. Experiments show that cumulative cultural evolution is not only unique but can also result
in adaptive complexity in behaviour and can also produce convergence in behaviour. Before the emergence of
humans biological evolution was the only way this type of adaptive complexity could emerge. With cultural evolution
as a new mechanism for complexity construction the entire evolutionary process is more potent and can operate much
more quickly. Furthermore, cumulative cultural evolution consumes all of human individual and collective existence.
The human life is one spent first learning the knowledge, inventions, and achievements of previous generations, and then secondly, building upon them (i.e. ratcheting "up" the complexity). In the modern world, all individual and
collective economic success is dependent on our cultural and technological complexity, the mechanism for which is our
ability to understand and make use of imparted knowledge and artifacts. From this perspective it does not seem
unreasonable to suggest that one evolutionary process (i.e. culture) is growing more dominant than another (i.e, biology).
To envision these as evolutionary pathways, I would propose that one evolutionary pathway is "biochemical" and
one is "technocultural".
Evolutionary scientists have long recognized that the cultural evolutionary process shares many non-arbitrary parallelswith biological evolutionary processes, and that these cultural evolutionary processes are uniquely manifestin the human species. Experiments show that cumulative cultural evolution is not only unique but can also resultin adaptive complexity in behaviour and can also produce convergence in behaviour. Before the emergence ofhumans biological evolution was the only way this type of adaptive complexity could emerge. With cultural evolutionas a new mechanism for complexity construction the entire evolutionary process is more potent and can operate muchmore quickly. Furthermore, cumulative cultural evolution consumes all of human individual and collective existence.The human life is one spent first learning the knowledge, inventions, and achievements of previous generations, and then secondly, building upon them (i.e. ratcheting "up" the complexity). In the modern world, all individual andcollective economic success is dependent on our cultural and technological complexity, the mechanism for which is ourability to understand and make use of imparted knowledge and artifacts. From this perspective it does not seemunreasonable to suggest that one evolutionary process (i.e. culture) is growing more dominant than another (i.e, biology).To envision these as evolutionary pathways, I would propose that one evolutionary pathway is "biochemical" andone is "technocultural".
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