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Freedom
A few years ago, at my discussion group, we read Isaiah Berlin’s essay “Two Concepts of Liberty” (1958): PDF of the Essay Two Concepts of…
Heritability of variability
Yesterday I wrote about Darwin’s foreshadowing of r/K selection theory. Today I’ll argue that The Origin of Species also predicts punctuated…
Darwin and r/K selection
Today I’m thinking about Darwin and r/K selection theory. Wikipedia had led me to believe that this was an idea of Robert MacArthur and E. O…
Five-Day Fast
Last week, from Monday 2 November to Friday 6 November 2020, I did a self-run writing retreat at home, during which I also fasted. For those…
Oxygenic Photosynthesis
In the beginning, there was anoxygenic photosynthesis. OK, not in the beginning beginning, but at least before oxygenic photosynthesis…
Revolutions break bottlenecks
Part of a series on revolutions. On this page we define bottlenecks and think about some revolutions that break them. Definition What is a…
The Fertile Crescent
Part of a series on revolutions. Here I assert that abundance is a condition for step changes in complexity using the example of the Fertile…
Revolutions occur in conditions of abundance
Part of a series on revolutions. What constitutes abundance? More influx than efflux is one way of seeing it. Of what? is a good question…
Characteristics of Revolutions
Part of a series on revolutions. On this page I’ll keep a list of observations I’ve made about revolutions, as defined here. This represents…
Revolutions, Step Changes, Paradigm Shifts
Part of a series on revolutions. You say you want a revolution? Well, you know We all want to change the world You tell me that it’s…

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