#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #whyonlyus #Berwick #chomsky #evolution #exaptation #traits

Behavioral novelties and morphological #exaptation underlie #trophic novelty in an anemone-feeding fish zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #ecomorphology

So, while the environment (larger system) has more variation than subsystems, successful smaller ones are able to survive. How?

Because not all info (or source) has the same weight. And because survival doesn't only come to the primary version, but also what emerges from diversity via #exaptation.

What Is Exaptation? - Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist I’m in the middle of reading Fires of Life: Endothermy in Birds and Mammals by Barry Gordon Lovegrove. It’s a… Read more What Is Exaptation?

#Nature doesn't waste resources, and at rebeccalexa.com/what-is-exap... I explore the fins in our arms and the ghosts of gills in our jaws. #exaptation #evolution #paleontology #prehistory #prehistoric #PrehistoricAnimals #animals #wildlife #science #SciComm #NaturalHistory #HumanAnatomy 🌿

This diverse information pool is the source of mutations, serendipity, #exaptation, & ultimately, of greater resilience.

Knowledge & Info networks like science, DNA, or the mind use a balance of long & short-term gains via indirect, multi-connective relations & direct, singular paths, respectively.

Our top 5 ‘Working Definitions‘ of 2024 | MIT Sloan Terms that caught readers’ attention this year include low-ego leadership, glass cliff, financial nihilism, greenhushing, and exaptation strategy.

4. #Greenhushing
脱炭素目標について、人々の関心を薄めさせる目的で企業が意図的に沈黙を守ること
5. #Exaptation Strategy
Exaptation（外適応）とは、進化の過程で、ある形質や遺伝子の機能などが元来とは別の新しい機能をもつようになることを意味する。ビジネスの文脈では、活用されなくなった資産を新しい組み合わせで活用し、新たな価値を創出することをいう。
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DIKW Pyramid — Jeff Winter The Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom (DIKW) pyramid is at the heart of Digital Transformation, especially Big Data.

Here's an explainer from a Google search, w/a diagram. The idea goes back nearly 100 yrs and has evolved much over that period.

Few wheels need reinventing, most can survive by #exaptation - being repurposed or generalized.

#KO #DIKW #cogsci #philsci

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My critiques of specific camps of thought are not meant as absolutes. The phrase about the baby & bath water works here.

Finding ourselves w/over-reliance on (IE) #reductionism doesn't make it evil. It means we alter course away from it, seeking better results for the current #context.

#Exaptation