Biol 350

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The Industrial Revolution

Joseph Reynoldsにより

Espazioa

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Horses

Bri Lyonsにより

Natural World

Kathleen Terhuneにより

Socialization

Variation in optimal tactics

Floating topic

The 'Big Four' human drives

Reproduction, survival, legacy, leisure

Technological advancement

Carrying capacity increases

Illusions

Benefits of new technology will exceed costs

Freedom to explore new technology eventually results in disaster

Benefits of new technology will always minimize costs

No technical solution will rescue us from misery of overpopulation

Pleasurable because it rewarded the reproductive success of our ancestors

Cultural change

Increased average age of 30 at first birth

Limit of one child per female

Population control

Potential solution

No prevention of mortality

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Where are we headed?

Becoming the solution

Moral enhancement

Transhumanism

Pharmaceuticals

Institutional redesign

Perennial challenge

Shame

Biosocial management goals

Aversion for Darwinism

Temporal discounting

Denial

Self-impermanence anxiety

Legacy drive

Leisure drive

Human Evolution

Prioritizes fitness

Increase in population size, but only to finite maximum

Unsustainable

Collapse of civilization

Increase in impoverished and starving people

Moral dilemma

Stand by and watch them starve

Try to feed starving people

Increase in food production

Tragedy of the commons

Limited resources

What are we?

Cultural evolution

Human nature

Motivations

Emotions, behaviours & cultures

Morality

Group cooperation

Altruism

Universal/Golden Rule

Conscious giving

Reproductive success

Immoral/evil behaviour

War

Self-deception

Glorify war

Standard social science model

Cultural determinism

Narrative of the self

Depression, mental irregularities

Unique adaptable & inventive advantage

what is the meaning of life? Is my existence absurd?

Escape from Self

Inability to "live in the present"

Aware of the inevitability our own death

Enhancing Survival

Sex drive

Survival drive

Self-Impermanence Anxiety

Modern "death-defying" distractions

Ancestral anxiety buffers

Leisure Drive

Social Pleasure

Gives meaning to life (hedonic wellbeing)

Intellectual pleasure

Wonder

temporary conspicuous consumerism

Sensual Pleasure

Mimetic legacy drive

Motherhood

Hyper-parenting

Parenting Drive

Achievements and success of one's children

Genetic legacy as an incidental product

Delusions

Religion

Successful fecundity

Post-self transcendence

Extension of self through "soul"

Productive illusions that allow us to thrive

Susceptibility to visual illusions

Easily distracted from what we are

Biological evolution

Nature vs. nurture

Evolutionary fitness

Trade-offs

Sexual behaviour differences between males and females

Freemale culture

Monogamy

Reduced paternity uncertainty

Marriage

Polygyny

Skewed distribution of wealth

Without wealth, value daughters

With wealth, value sons

Paternity uncertainty

Subjugation of women

Genetic determinism

Evolutionary science model