In Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of A Good Society, Nicholas Christakis argues that this
coevolution has equipped us with a "social suite" of traits that arose through genetic evolution and that have been amplified by cultural evolution, which has in turn influenced our genetic evolution toward propensities that support the social suite.
"We think," says senior study author Christopher Lowry, an associate professor of integrative physiology at CU Boulder, "[that] there is a special sauce driving the protective effects in this bacterium, and this fat is one of the main ingredients in that special sauce." He says that the finding is "a huge step forward for us because it identifies an active component of the bacteri[um] and the receptor for this active component in the host." The interaction between the anti-inflammatory fatty acid and immune cells is a product of the
coevolution of humans and soil bacteria, Lowry argues.
10: Anurag Agrawal's "Monarchs and Milkweed: A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of
Coevolution," 2017.
'Millions of years of
coevolution made parasites the trackers of the host's evolution history.
Our long
coevolution with disease has 'wired in' this intuitive sense of what can cause infection."
In a networked world, where everything we do affects others, we must learn to think beyond ourselves, and pursue cooperation, cocreation,
coevolution, and collective intelligence.
Among specific topics are the poentializing function of language (Guillaume), the triadic logic of the sign (Peirce), abduction as a poietic procedure, and the
coevolution of language and the brain.
Sacks points out that Darwin illuminated for the first time the
coevolution of plants and insects.
Concerning measurement, or how company performance is evaluated, this varies between the production of random data on unknown behavior patterns (Level 1) to monitoring company patterns and
coevolution with the environment (Level 5).
This genetic-cultural
coevolution explains why many of us with pastoralist ancestors are lactose tolerant.