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<p>Dear FIS Friends,</p>
<p>Jorge Navarro and me have just published a paper entitled
"SOCIOTYPE AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION : The acceleration
of cultural
change alongside industrial revolutions" <br>
</p>
<p>The link is this:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2020.104170">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2020.104170</a></p>
<p>And the Abstract is below.</p>
<p>It contains a series of hypothesis that can be useful for our
discussions. I will post some of them in next days. Also Howard
Bloom has published in the same Special Issue of BioSystems
(Evolutionary Dynamics of Social Systems) a very intriguing essay
on "biopolitics", about the bacterial roots of the new
autocracies. More will follow...<br>
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style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
16.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><i><b>Abstract: </b>The
present work explores, from the vantage point of
the sociotype, the dramatic acceleration of cultural change
alongside the
successive industrial revolutions, particularly in the ongoing
information</i><i> era. </i><i>Developed within the </i><i>genotype-phenotype-sociotype</i><i>
</i><i>conceptual triad, the sociotype</i><i> means the average
social environment that is
adaptively demanded by the “social brain” of each individual.</i><i>
For there
is a regularity of social interaction, centered on social
bonding and talking
time, which has been developed as an adaptive trait,
evolutionarily rooted,
related to the substantial size increase of human groups. A
quantitative
approach to the sociotype basic traits shows fundamental
competitive interrelationships
taking place within an overall “attention economy.”
Approaching these figures
via the Planckian Distribution Equation, they can be connected
with many other
competitive processes taking place in the biological,
economic, and cultural
realms. Concerning culture, the cognitive limits of the
individual, which we
consider commensurate with the sociotype general limitations,
impose by
themselves a strict boundary on the cultural items effectively
handled by each individual,
fostering the overall competition and decay. Further, the
emergence of
differentiated generations with ample discrepancy in styles of
life, social aspirations,
and dominant technologies would represent a systematic bias in
the competition and
replacement of cultural items. Intriguingly, the cultural
acceleration detected
in modern societies alongside the successive industrial
revolutions, with an ostensible
climax in the ongoing fourth industrial revolution –the
information era– might
be itself a paradoxical consequence of the sociotype’s dynamic
constancy.</i></p>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> Best regards--Pedro<br>
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Pedro C. Marijuán
Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/">http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/</a>
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