Tim Lewens

Jun 3, 2024 | cambridge.org | Tim Lewens

4.1 Manioc Processing in Amazonia The previous sections each began by addressing a very general question: how to define cultural selection, how it might relate to cultural attraction, and the prospects of formalising it via the Price Equation. This final section instead begins with the puzzles posed by a specific case, namely the processing of manioc in Amazonia. My primary goal here is not to show how the general lessons of the previous sections should be put into practice.

Mar 3, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Christopher Buckley |Tim Lewens |Michael Levin |Beren Millidge

AbstractEvolution by natural selection is believed to be the only possible source of spontaneous adaptive organisation in the natural world. This places strict limits on the kinds of systems that can exhibit adaptation spontaneously, i.e. without design. Physical systems can show some properties relevant to adaptation without natural selection or design.