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Mais le problème est plus complexe, les deux processus de sélection ne sont pas mutuellement exclusifs. Même si la compétition d’un individu à l’intérieur d’un groupe est le processus le plus important de l’évolution humaine, la sélection au niveau des groupes, la compétition entre les groupes, peut avoir joué un rôle également.
Jonathan Haidt • L'hypothèse du bonheur: La redécouverte de la sagesse ancienne dans la science contemporaine (PSY. Individus, groupes, cultures) (French Edition)
the competition in biological evolution is not between different species, but between variants of genes within a species – which does not resemble the supposed ‘class struggle’ at all.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
The value (“fitness”) of a given combination of building blocks often cannot be predicted by a summing up of values assigned to the component blocks. This nonlinearity (commonly called epistasis in genetics) leads to co-adapted sets of blocks (alleles) that serve to bias sampling and add additional layers to the hierarchy.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Ian Yates, a British sports scientist and coach who helped develop future professional athletes in a range of sports.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Instead of assuming agents were perfectly rational, we allowed there were limits to how smart they were. Instead of assuming the economy displayed diminishing returns (negative feedbacks), we allowed that it might also contain increasing returns (positive feedbacks). Instead of assuming the economy was a mechanistic system operating at equilibrium,
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Joseph Henrich • The Secret of Our Success
Two books that have greatly influenced my life are The Double Helix by James D. Watson and The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.
Timothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
La sélection naturelle est un principe universel, qui s'applique à tous les êtres vivants, mais elle prend des formes très différentes. Elle existe même chez les végétaux ; mais dans ce cas elle est liée à l'accès aux nutriments du sol, à l'eau, à la lumière solaire… L'homme, lui, est un animal, c'est entendu ; mais ce n'est ni un chien de prairie,
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