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0136 The question that I failed to address is this, “Does the author’s figure 2 comport with the two-level interscope for natural selection?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0137 What if I replace “natural selection” with “cultural selection”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0138 The normal context of cultural selection3b<\/sub><\/em> brings the actuality of social adaptations<\/em> (including social bonds, cognitive spaces and cooperative interactions)2b<\/sub> into relation with a social niche1b<\/sub>, <\/em>defined as the potential1b<\/sub> of individuals facing natural selection pressures in the environment of evolutionary adaptation<\/em> (EEA)2a<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0139 Of course, these social adaptations2b<\/sub><\/em> potentiate the social group1c<\/sub>,<\/em> which, as noted earlier, includes the social circle that is under the most significant selective pressure<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, I may say that the potential of the social group1c<\/sub><\/em> creates the situation where social beings2b<\/sub><\/em> are adaptive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0140 Next, imagine that the salient social circle<\/em> is the team<\/em> (15).  Over generations, the team1c<\/sub> encourages social adaptations2b<\/sub> that rewards individuals with phenotypes that are appropriate to that team2a<\/sub>.  In other words, successful teams2a<\/sub>, as the medium responding to evolutionary pressures associated with obligating collaborative foraging,<\/em>produces a selection pressure3b<\/sub> on the individual2b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the social adaptations2b<\/sub> is protolinguistic hand-talk2b<\/sub>.  The semiotics of protolinguistic hand-talk2a<\/sub><\/em> become the actuality independent of adapting individuals<\/em> (species)2a<\/sub>.  Individual adaptations2b<\/sub><\/em> encourage sensible construction<\/em>during team activities<\/em>.  Hand-talk<\/em> facilitates sensible construction<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0141 Next, imagine that, during the domestication of fire,<\/em> cooking changes everything.  Cooking with fire<\/em> unlocks hitherto sequestered nutrients.  More teams can be successful.  More teams means larger brains and larger groups.  Bands (50) grow into communities (150).  Communities are teams of teams<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enough versatility exists among teams that ecological pressures are mediated by organizational capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the salient social circle is now the community (150).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0142 The author’s next set of feedback loops<\/em> is collective action,<\/em> which roughly corresponds to the interactions within a community and its environment<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0143 This set of feedback loops<\/em> demands that a perspective level<\/em> comes into play.  The situation-level might be family (5), friends (5), team (50) and band (50), as well as mega-band (500) and tribe (1500).  A perspective-level<\/em> adapts to the community<\/em> (150).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After all, that is what Robin Dunbar’s correlation between human brain size and group size predicts<\/em>.  Human brains<\/em> are adaptive for groups with a size of 150<\/em>.  But, a community<\/em> contain smaller groups,<\/em> so one of the jobs of the community<\/em> is to bring harmony<\/em> among the teams, friends and families<\/em>.  One of the other jobs<\/em> is to face outwards<\/em> towards other communities<\/em> (that is, mega-bands and tribes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0144 Well, if I add a perspective level<\/em> to the two-level interscope<\/em>, then a whole new typology of social bonds, cognitive spaces and cooperative interactions2c<\/sub><\/em> manifests.  If Dugin is correct, these actualities2c<\/sub> fall under the label, “ethnos”, for the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0145 Here is the three-level interscope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the perspective level, the normal context of hominin flourishing3c<\/sub><\/em> brings the actuality of the ethnos2c<\/sub><\/em> into relation with the potential of harmony among all social circles, including those smaller and larger than the community1c<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the situation level, the normal context of cultural selection3b<\/sub><\/em> brings the actuality of social groups2b<\/sub><\/em> into relation with the social niche2a<\/sub>,<\/em> consisting of the potential of individuals in community2a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the content level, the presence of need3a<\/sub><\/em> brings the individual in community2a<\/sub><\/em> into relation with the potential of meeting a challenge1a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0146 One question is, “Who<\/em> constructs this content-level normal context3a<\/sub> and potential1a<\/sub>?”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus, how are these normal contexts3<\/sub> and potentials1<\/sub><\/em> constellated in niche construction?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

0136 The question that I failed to address is this, “Does the author’s figure 2 comport with the two-level interscope for natural selection?” 0137 What if I replace “natural selection” with “cultural selection”? Here is a picture. 0138 The normal context of cultural selection3b brings the actuality of social adaptations (including social bonds, cognitive spaces and cooperative interactions)2b into relation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-review"],"yoast_head":"\nLooking at Augustin Fuentes's Article (2016) "The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis..." 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