Reddit reviews Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution

There is an argument using evolutionary theory that agriculture was only adopted to increase group fitness at the cost of indivual fitness.

Lots of civilisation diseases started with the adoption of agriculture.

So there is the argument that agriculture made civilisation possible but at the cost of pure indivual strength and physical prowess.

There is lots of evidence that early agricultural societies had less than healthy members compared to hunter gatherers.

When you think about it, the indivual skills of a warrior in a large army is less important than pure numbers, most armies in the past were farmers called to war once a year, and yet the prevailed most of the time against nomad societies whos way of life made them formidable indivual warriors like the steppe people, just by numbers alone.

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If someone is interested where these theories come from, I recommend these books:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0452288193/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_0452288193

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0996139516/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_0996139516


https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Our-Success-Evolution-Domesticating/dp/0691178437/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=joseph+henrich&qid=1558984106&s=gateway&sprefix=joseph+henr&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/Not-Genes-Alone-Transformed-Evolution/dp/0226712125/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=not+by+genes+alone&qid=1558984151&s=gateway&sprefix=Not+by+ge&sr=8-1

Boyd and Richerson with their book, Not By Genes Alone - http://www.amazon.com/Not-Genes-Alone-Transformed-Evolution/dp/0226712125/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342577928&sr=1-1&keywords=not+by+genes+alone , is their take and advocacy for dual-inheritance theory. They have a couple of thoughts on memes. Firstly, they do not accept that memes are analogous discrete cultural replicators in the way the genes are, there is a greater vulnerability to mutation and not as high a fidelity of replication as there is with genes. However, they do think that even though there are these differences between their concept of culturally evolving information and memes, the underlying process of cultural evolution proceeds under Darwinian principals.

Well I gave you a link. I suppose it flew over your head because:

> requires the neural network itself to grow

That's not how a brain works. Where did you hear about a neural network, because you seem a little confused about what a neural network is. A neural network is a computer model based on how a brain might form ideas. It is not a human brain.

When you say "Brain cells are like that to network & become able to recognize faces, etc." (sic) it's hard to tell what you are saying because you are so inarticulate. I suppose you are trying to make some statement on how neural pathways are formed?

Your statement doesn't take into account how hormones like adrenaline, testosterone or estrogen influence the formation of neural pathways. It doesn't talk about dopaminergic projections that control the formation of neural pathways based on pre-existing inherited structure.

Neural pathways are guided by the design of the brain itself. For example Brocca's area in the brain is where the human brain conjugates language. In your simplistic statement -there would be no need for the brain to compartmentalize because apparently there is no pre-existing influence of genes on brain development.

I've provided several links now.

> where have YOU been getting your information from?

I already gave you several links. It's obvious that you don't know anything about this. So here's several books that you should read before you show your general ignorance of the topic:

http://www.amazon.com/Human-Brain-Book-Rita-Carter/dp/1465416021/

http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Human-Behavior-Darwinian-Perspectives/dp/0262533049


http://www.amazon.com/Not-Genes-Alone-Transformed-Evolution/dp/0226712125/

> Ahh, you sure love to repeat the same BS over and over again.

I repeat it because you refuse to address it and just reiterate your points which are lies about what Comicsgate is.

So let me answer you by reiterating things I've already said.

>So please tell me, Mr Not-At-All-A-Child,

>> I'm not going to take the bait and argue that I'm old; but I will say: what difference does it make?

> what is the lovely "Comics Gate" opinions?

>> They're saying that forced political plot lines in comics, suck.

> And only them can decide what is a "forced political point"?

>> Determining that is a matter of taste and opinion.

> And even by your Dawkins interpretation, it makes no sense.

>> I am using the both definitions but specifically referring to the second:

an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video)
or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through
social media

> So everything that was spread in comicsbooks at that time that was amusing or interesting is by your definition is a meme?

That's another strawman argument. I never said that. You seem awfully fond of this tactic. I can tell you that it doesn't work, unless you are speaking to people that already agree with you.

Meme's are themes that are replicated and transmitted throughout a culture. I'm not going to be your single source for this. If you are truly interested then I suggest you start with the Selfish Gene and then move on to Not by Genes Alone finally Memes in Digital Culture.

But I truly doubt that you are here for any serious discussion about anything other than to smear people that point out your fallacious statements.



> That would make the comicbooks a meme in and of itself.

No. Comic books are a medium for transmission of information that may or may not contain memes. "Comic books" in general is not a meme unto itself.

> Because in my opinion, and I am not strawmanning everything here, this whole Comic Gate BS is just the same people that did the Gamergate BS which is the same people that is in the Alt Right BS, it is people who dislike seeing women and minorities in comics so they whine about "forced politics". This have been going on for so long and they grew tired of harassing game devs that they decided to go harass comic book writers and artists instead.

You are entitled to your opinion but it doesn't reflect other people's opinion. That is, what actual leaders of comics gate actually think is divorced from what you say they think.