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The animal that wins in the struggle for existence is the one that is most successfully adapted to its environment, and yet the environment is always changing. The only permanence is the permanence of change.

— Edmund Sinnott, Cell and Psyche: The Biology of Purpose (1950)
4w ago

The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would have remained unchanged since the earliest days; no evolution, no mankind, nothing.

2mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, and now the machine is reinventing us. We must learn to think in a new way, or perish.

2mo ago
3quarksdaily.com
Business Leaders Say Adapting to AI Is Essential to Survival

As AI tools become more widely used and increasingly specialized, many business leaders are trying to think quickly and creatively about how to best utilize this technology at nearly every level of their operations.

3mo ago
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City animals act in the same brazen ways around the world

Studies show that animals living in urban environments around the world exhibit common sets of behaviors. At the same time, these urban animals are losing traits they would need in the wild. This process of urban animals' behavior becoming more similar is known as "behavioral homogenization," and it accompanies the loss of species diversity with urbanization.

3mo ago

The eye, like all the other organs, was perfected by natural selection, for good seeing being disadvantageous to every animal, the standard of perfection for this organ is indeterminate.

3mo ago

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