Memes with the Watson keyword “cliché”

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Exchange is to cultural evolution as sex is to biological evolution

If culture consisted simply of learning habits from others, it would soon stagnate. For culture to turn cumulative, ideas needed to meet and mate. The ‘cross-fertilisation of ideas’ is a cliché, but one with unintentional fecundity. ‘To create is to recombine’ said the molecular biologist François Jacob. Imagine if…

Sep 22, 2017 1

cross-pollination
evolution
hybridization
markets

The Science on the Path

A weed plucked at the side of the path might have found its way to the New World in a seventeenth century sailing ship. Scratches on a rocky ledge evoke colossal mountain-building events on the other side of the world millions of years ago that modified the planet's climate and caused glaciers to creep across New…

Jun 8, 2011 1

education
naturalism
nature