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- Aug 2023
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In AET, this process results in a species that is prone to niche construction and ecosystem engineering, and the scale of these processes continues to increase as the population rises. This increasing scale coupled with human propensity for niche construction leads to human unsustainability
- for: for: ecological collapse, overshoot, progress trap, progress trap - cultural evolution, ultra-sociality, Lotka's maximum power, gene culture coevolution
- key finding
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- In AET,
- multi-level selection acting on the genome and
- occurring in concert with selective and non-selective mechanisms acting on culture and technology
- results in a species that is prone to
- niche construction and
- ecosystem engineering,
- and the scale of these processes continues to increase as the population rises.
- This increasing scale
- coupled with human propensity for niche construction
- leads to human unsustainability
- In AET,
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To Gowdy and Krall, the ultra-social nature of human groups allowed for a shift in the primary level of selection from the individual level to the group level. Thus, “With the transition to agriculture the group as an adaptive unit comes to constitute a wholly different gestalt driven by the imperative to produce surplus
- for: ecological collapse, overshoot, progress trap, progress trap - cultural evolution, ultra-sociality, Lotka's maximum power
- paraphrase
- to Gowdy and Krall, the ultra-social nature of human groups allowed for a shift in the primary level of selection
- from the individual level
- to the group level.
- Thus, “With the transition to agriculture the group as an adaptive unit comes to constitute a wholly different gestalt
- driven by the imperative to produce surplus
- to Gowdy and Krall, the ultra-social nature of human groups allowed for a shift in the primary level of selection
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for: gene culture coevolution, carrying capacity, unsustainability, overshoot, cultural evolution, progress trap
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Title: The genetic and cultural evolution of unsustainability
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Author: Brian F. Snyder
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Abstract
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- Anthropogenic changes are accelerating and threaten the future of life on earth.
- While the proximate mechanisms of these anthropogenic changes are well studied
- climate change,
- biodiversity loss,
- population growth
- the evolutionary causality of these anthropogenic changes have been largely ignored.
- Anthroecological theory (AET) proposes that the ultimate cause of anthropogenic environmental change is
- multi-level selection for niche construction and ecosystem engineering.
- Here, we integrate this theory with
- Lotka’s Maximum Power Principle
- and propose a model linking
- energy extraction from the environment with
- genetic, technological and cultural evolution
- to increase human ecosystem carrying capacity.
- Carrying capacity is partially determined by energetic factors such as
- the net energy a population can acquire from its environment and
- the efficiency of conversion from energy input to offspring output.
- These factors are under Darwinian genetic selection
- in all species,
- but in humans, they are also determined by
- technology and
- culture.
- If there is genetic or non-genetic heritable variation in
- the ability of an individual or social group
- to increase its carrying capacity,
- then we hypothesize that - selection or cultural evolution will act - to increase carrying capacity.
- Furthermore, if this evolution of carrying capacity occurs
- faster than the biotic components of the ecological system can respond via their own evolution,
- then we hypothesize that unsustainable ecological changes will result.
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Tags
- evolution of our polycrisis
- The genetic and cultural evolution of unsustainability
- overshoot
- ultra-sociality
- key finding
- cumulative cultural evolution
- evolution of polycrisis
- Lotka's maximum power
- progress trap
- Brian F Snyder
- niche construction
- key finding - unsustainability
- gene culture coevolution
- progress trap - gene culture coevolution
- gene-culture coevolution
- key finding - AET
- evolution of the anthropocene
- progress trap - cultural evolution
- unsustainability
- conscious cumulative cultural evolution
- Gowdy and Krall
- human niche construction
- Anthroecological theory
- AET
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