Chapter 024 Weak Compensation

Lao Wang Tou continued to live in vain: "The "General Theory of Evolution" itself uses the word evolution, but it goes against the original meaning of evolution, and it still turns evolution into evolution. The main difference between the two is the angle of view. The evolutionary perspective is linear and looks at the progress of the species from low to high. The evolutionary perspective is line-up, focusing on the differentiation of species, and there is no distinction between low and high levels.

Luo Pang gave an example that made everyone complain very much, saying that ants, low-level animals, have a higher degree of storage than humans, and their weight is heavier than that of humans. He may have said the wrong word, he may have wanted to say the quantity, but there is no controversy, right? Either way, I estimate that ants weigh much more than humans as a whole.

This example is not obvious. He should have said bacteria. There are more than 10 trillion cells in the adult human body, and there are far more than 10 trillion bacteria in the digestive tract that form a mutually beneficial relationship with humans, not to mention bacteria in the skin, mouth, and other places.

But humans are not comparable to ants and bacteria, and our aesthetics are too different. So we always feel why is this comparison so awkward? The fundamental reason is that the evolution of species is diverse, and ants have chosen their evolutionary paths, which are unconscious, and at the fork in the road of differentiation, all individuals and groups are blind.

Why? Because there are two scissors in nature, one in the hands of the god of death, one part of it is cut off and some part is kept to promote evolution. Another pair of scissors is sexual selection, which uses guò mate preferences, breeding strategies, and offspring strategies to eliminate one part and keep the other.

Both scissors are invisible, and the subject is unaware of them. Evolution is a subtle process. Take, for example, the question 'chicken or egg'. The species that preceded the chicken, let's call it the 'Archaeopteryx'. The appearance of the Archaeopteryx is not forced by life as the famous scientific research institution Deyun Club said. But little by little, the accumulation of genetic mutations for hundreds of thousands of years and millions of years has gradually become the current quasi-spectrum chicken.

So, the serious answer to this question is that chickens and eggs slowly evolved from Archaeopteryx and Archaeopteryx eggs, with some mutations occurring in chickens and some mutations occurring in eggs, evenly distributed over a long period of millions of years.

In the long years, it is impossible for a single chicken or egg to perceive its own changes, and even if an immortal scientist looks at the transitional chicken and the transitional egg with a magnifying glass or microscope, I am afraid that he will not be able to see the difference between one generation and the next.

This theory also works in the context of human evolution. Nature's fancy scissors are different in the five continents and four oceans, depending on the geographical environment and ecological environment there, it happens to be in this place in East Africa, and Homo sapiens, which is almost genetically identical to us now, was finally cut out, and that year was 70,000 years ago.

At that time, Homo sapiens was at its most difficult and dangerous, with only a few thousand people, just as we are now distressed and pitiful for snow leopards, giant pandas, or Galapagos tortoises. This is because the environment in Africa has become quite harsh and food is scarce. One of the more popular sayings comes from A Brief History of Mankind.

The author believes that there is a tribe that has a culture of storytelling and gossip, which expands the social boundaries of Homo sapiens, so that more tribes can unite to identify with the same values and maintain the same archway.

The scale of human society has expanded, with a tribe of cattle inventing a canoe, a tribe learning to use bone needles to sew clothes, and a tribe discovering poison that can be applied to arrowheads, which can be used for hunting with special effects, and various tribes are exchanging survival skills at an unprecedented rate. What the author calls a 'revolution in consciousness' took place.

From this time on, Homo sapiens climbed to the top of the food chain, and the behemoth African elephant, the ferocious and ferocious lions, and the Homo friends whose wit was almost not inferior to Homo sapiens were no longer an obstacle to Homo sapiens' expansion. From this moment on, Homo sapiens occupied all of Africa, went out, occupied the Middle East, spread to Europe, and drove Neanderthals into the Mediterranean.

This epic journey may seem spectacular to anthropologists, but our ancestors did not feel it, they just wanted more food, warmer hides, more habitable caves, and better care for their families and people.

The collective unconscious is the greatest feature of species evolution and social evolution. Civilization was achieved little by little, and the Neanderthals or the Denisovans of Asia were forced back little by little. However, the progress of civilization does not mean that all of the survival skills of the past are destroyed.

As for species, I would like to object to the weakening of the compensation for the weakness, I don't know if it was made clear just now. The species are not weaker from generation to generation, but more and more, just like building a seventh-level floating slaughter, it must be that the floor below is larger than the one above, so that it can carry the layers of superposition. If you want to look at the problem in three dimensions, you can't take a floor plan and look at it, wow, why are we humans so little, is our evolutionary strategy wrong? Is our civilization strayed?

Although we are few in number, we are creatures at the top of the tower, a naturally tsundere species. There is a judgment that the later a species evolves, the more likely it is to become extinct. This statement is very controversial. But I basically agree. How so? Because primitive life was mainly influenced by the environment, while later life was mainly an arms race between species.

Since it's an arms race, what's the point? Of course, it is becoming more and more intense, and the organs are becoming more and more professional. If there is a Tyrannosaurus rex still alive now, it is estimated that they will be dumbfounded when they see African cheetahs. it, why do you run so fast? If this dragon sees a king cobra and thinks that people are easy to bully, it will be bad, and if you go down in one bite, the Tyrannosaurus rex will also poison you. This is the evolutionary pinnacle of the arms race of poison.

In fact, dinosaurs are not dead, and birds are descendants of dinosaurs. If the ancient pterosaur saw the friship bird that flew for several months and did not land, it would probably be scared, buddy, you are too strong. This is also the result of the evolutionary race.

Needless to say, the more professional you are, the more you will have nothing to do after you lose your job, and it will be easy to become extinct. Tang Bohu, who was disqualified from the imperial examination for helping a friend cheat, was disqualified from the imperial examination for helping a friend cheat, and finally became a street vendor selling fans, and later made a living by painting love action paintings. He is a professional literati, and he has no other skills.

Guo Degang often says that he can only be nonsense and has no other skills. Honghuo almost starved to death before, and if it is blocked in the future, it is estimated that he will be half starved to death.

The more professional you are, the more you have to give up your other skills, which is called compensation.

Zi Feiyu's observations are correct, but he still sees the problem too flatly. The conclusion is wrong. Species that are becoming shorter-lived are not more and more miserable, but the world is becoming richer and richer. Species come and go as fast as they come, and that's a good thing. Since we want to be aesthetic about the law, we can also look at the intensification of species evolution from another perspective.

Some people say, no, since humans dominated the earth, the extinction of species on this earth is accelerating! There are fewer and fewer species, and the pace of evolution cannot keep up with the speed at which humans are exterminating.

This is another issue entirely, species were moving towards diversification before humans expanded on a large scale. This does not contradict the observations of sub-fishes. The strangulation of species by humans is an acute transient psychosis in the development of human beings from scarcity to abundance, and it is worth mentioning, but this is not the focus of the topic now, and we will talk about it later.

Now we are going to talk about Zifeiyu's pessimistic view of the progress of human civilization.

I don't know how it's written in the book, I'll read it when I have time. Judging from Luo Pang's deduction, it is said that the more developed human society is, the more individuals lose their basic survival skills. In other words, the more high-level intellectuals are, the more strictly they rely on the various facilities of society.

After a university professor is thrown out of college, he may starve to death, but a migrant worker who moves bricks is adaptable, where is not the dry work? One force will drop ten, send couriers, be cattle steak experts, and watch the underground casinos...... You can survive by doing anything.

It was discovered that the scariest mask of Halloween was the 'WIFI disconnection ghost', and everyone laughed, which shows that the people in the city who play are addicted to the Internet. The peasants in their hometowns have nothing and don't understand anything, and how happy they are to live a small life!

Someone said, no, in fact, the big professor can also survive in a reduced dimension, you see, the great intellectuals who went to the countryside in our turbulent and chaotic era, raised pigs for nothing, married a village girl as a daughter-in-law and gave birth to a village baby, and lived happily together from then on, isn't it good?

Don't raise the bar, don't raise the bar, we have to respect Mr. Zifeiyu's observation angle. There are many intellectuals who have gone to the countryside to commit suicide, and it is certain that they are unhappy and unhappy in their lives.

Recently, there was a question on Zhihu, saying, 'If there is going to be a third war in 30 days, what should we do?' I replied casually: find a girl from a hunter-gatherer tribe and come to her house to be a son-in-law.

This short answer is a metaphor for the essence of Zifeiyu's intentions, that in times of great turmoil, the survival conditions of the hunter-gatherer tribes may be lower than those of the people who can play in the city or the countryside.

Isn't it? Is humanity, which has developed nuclear weapons, on the verge of danger? This key question is probably the starting point for Zifeiyu to reflect on the evolution of the entire universe and develop a so-called philosophy of weak compensation. ”

The old Wang, who is verbose and like a class, is giving a lesson to the teachers of a key middle school. Everyone saw that Charlotte, whose appearance had broken through the sky, gradually gathered around Teacher Wang, as if the stars were holding the moon, and Teacher Wang was nervous, how to break it?