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adding page this day (via ultimape rt):

Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) tweeted at 5:24 PM – 17 Nov 2018 :
Selfish genetic elements – genes that get themselves selected without boosting the organism’s fitness, or even while harming it – provide some of the strongest support there is for the gene-centered view of evolution. https://t.co/97H2m57bEe See https://t.co/vTCEhDxL4d https://t.co/syHriWig0m (http://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1063951133398327297?s=17) 

Selfish genetic elements (historically also referred to as selfish genes, ultra-selfish genes, selfish DNA, parasitic DNA, genomic outlaws) are genetic segments that can enhance their own transmission at the expense of other genes in the genome, even if this has no or a negative effect on organismal fitness. Genomes have traditionally been viewed as cohesive units, with genes acting together to improve the fitness of the organism. However, when genes have some control over their own transmission, the rules can change, and so just like all social groups, genomes are vulnerable to selfish behaviour by their parts.

UltimApe  (@ultimape) tweeted at 6:17 AM – 18 Nov 2018 :
From the gene’s point of view, we are the egregore trying to manipulate them to our will.
https://t.co/W0HE7KXw1G (http://twitter.com/ultimape/status/1064145687930118144?s=17)

Selfish genetic elements – genes that get themselves selected without boosting the organism’s fitness, or even while harming it – provide some of the strongest support there is for the gene-centered view of evolution. plos.io/2zbZQy7

“People confuse the fact that we can more easily study it with the idea that it’s more important”

It’s a gorgeous story. Along with its beauty and other advantageous traits, it is amenable to maths and, at its core, wonderfully simple. It has inspired countless biologists and geneticists to plumb the gene’s wonders and do brilliant work. Unfortunately, say Wray, West-Eberhard and many others, the selfish-gene story is so focused on the gene’s singular role in natural selection that in an age when it’s ever more clear that evolution works in ways far more clever and complex than we realise, the selfish-gene model increasingly impoverishes both scientific and popular views of genetics and evolution. As both conceptual framework and metaphor, the selfish-gene has helped us see the gene as it revealed itself over the 20th century. But as a new age and new tools reveal a more complicated genome, the selfish-gene is blinding us.

UltimApe  (@ultimape) tweeted at 10:32 PM – 22 Nov 2016 :
Consider that my IRL social network is maybe 4 to 20, and yet 4000+ people have seen this thread here on creativity:
https://t.co/QLzmES2y0e (http://twitter.com/ultimape/status/801297277885235201?s=17) 

UltimApe  (@ultimape) tweeted at 10:24 PM – 22 Nov 2016 :
Could we be throwing out the balance of the very thing that empowers humanity’s collective intelligence & cohesion? https://t.co/v3iFpeAHPX (http://twitter.com/ultimape/status/801295316825899009?s=17)

UltimApe  (@ultimape) tweeted at 10:04 PM – 22 Nov 2016 :
A hidden regulating force that weakens those who are naturally averse to social situations. Populations regulated by the swarm? (http://twitter.com/ultimape/status/801290424220532740?s=17)

so many thoughts here.. ie: tragedy of commons; run amok; whales in sea world; wilde not us law; self/ness; self-talk as data; eudaimonia; self-organizing; genoptype/phenotype gap; dna ness; rna ness; undisturbed ecosystem; et al..

wondering how much this all (ie: seemingly selfish ness toward bad) depends on roots of healing more than finger pointing

also on (ultimape’s) autism bend – thinking about higashida autism law:

i think that people w autism are born outside the regime of civilization. i think that as a result of all the killings in the world and the selfish planet wrecking .. a deep sense of crisis exists.. autism has somehow arisen out of this..  we are like travelers from the distant past.. and if , by our being here, we could help the people of the world remember what truly matters for the earth that would give us a quiet pleasure..

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