Inspirador Descubre Ideas, Proyectos Y Temas

The Evolution of Everything

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Matt Ridley believes that evolution is way of understanding human society; therefore in this talk based on his latest book The Evolution of Everything: How Ideas Emerge (2016). The complexity of ecosystems is a combination of form and function that has been explained from Darwin’s perspective, however in human society complexity we tend to think someone is in charge, an idea that Ridley discusses with a quote from Adam Ferguson and the example of human languages. "It’s very clear that language evolved to be a complex, diverse and dynamic thing without human direction, without humans inventing it or innovating”. In the history of technologies such as tools, music instruments and airplanes, there is a similar evolution process where several variations of the same product are created, there is competition between prototypes and when one out stands, there is replication of the design, where the phenomena of convergence could happen and finally there could be extinction of the technology. "Every technology you