Human Evolution, Life History Theory, and the End of Biological Reproduction

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doi:10.2174/1874609807666140521101610

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“…The modeling of noemes helps us define ourselves in a way that strengthens our rational presence in the digital world. By trying to enhance our information-sharing capabilities we become better integrated within the GB and so become a valuable component of it, encouraging mechanisms active in all complex adaptive systems to operate in a way that prolongs our retention within this system (Gershenson and Fernández, 2012 ), i.e., prolongs our biological lifespan (Kyriazis, 2014b ; Last, 2014b ).…”

Section: Large Scale Network and The Global Brainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Systems neuroscience in focus: from the human brain to the global brain?

Kyriazis¹

2015

Front. Syst. Neurosci.

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Section: Large Scale Network and The Global Brainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Systems neuroscience in focus: from the human brain to the global brain?

Kyriazis¹

2015

Front. Syst. Neurosci.

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“…In modern human civilization adaptive complexity is predominantly cultural, as opposed to biological. This means that for human civilizations, energy control and distribution primarily depends on forms of cultural selection, not biological selection (Last 2014a).…”

Section: Three Evolutionary Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Big Historical Foundations for Deep Future Speculations: Cosmic Evolution, Atechnogenesis, and Technocultural Civilization

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2015

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“…In reality, the most likely agent able to achieve such a scenario is the human neuron and its supporting tissues, i.e. entire nonreproducing techno-culturally aligned humans [36].…”

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Environmental challenges may impact on somatic repair

Kyriazis¹

2015

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During the process of ageing there is canalisation of repair resources which tend to flow from the soma towards the germ line. In the early periods of phylogenetic development there was a time when repair of germ line cells became more efficient compared to the repair of somatic cells. The level of somatic repair became just enough to ensure that the organism reached sexual maturity. It was the biological equivalent of the mathematical bifurcation, when the pathway developed preferentially towards the germ line attractor. We are now looking for evidence that this could be changing, that we may be witnessing a phase transition from effective germ line repair to an effective somatic repair. Here I consider mechanisms of fidelity-preservation which may be present in the germ line, and examine the possibility that these may be made to operate upon somatic cells instead. Mechanisms which safeguard the reliability of germ line repair and ensuring robustness/resilience in the germ line may also (or instead) be applicable upon somatic material (cells and molecules, factors) and ensure a continually effective repair of this somatic material. Thus the ability to continually repair and maintain somatic organic material within biological systems is not lost. Continual challenges from the environment ensure that the flow of information remains active and it persistently stimulates the ability to repair the soma. Apart from germ line cells, some unicellular organisms such as bacteria maintain their ability for ongoing repairs, a fact that indicates that, in principle, senescence is not unavoidable.

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Human Evolution, Life History Theory, and the End of Biological Reproduction

Cited by 11 publications

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Systems neuroscience in focus: from the human brain to the global brain?

Systems neuroscience in focus: from the human brain to the global brain?

Big Historical Foundations for Deep Future Speculations: Cosmic Evolution, Atechnogenesis, and Technocultural Civilization

Environmental challenges may impact on somatic repair

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