/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9087663
>going to the dentist
wew lad

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>>8966088
Here is some real science
>journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fevo.2017.00003/full

>Due to the loss of the initial behavioral plasticity that allowed the animals to adopt the new behavior, the persistence of that behavior—and thus of the epigenetic/genetic anatomical features related to it—might become counterproductive when the external environment is changed, as is the case of pandas and the lack of available bamboo. At one moment in time, the ancestors of pandas did not eat bamboo, but then were able to perform a behavioral shift in order to eat it successfully. But, for some reason, extant pandas do no longer seem to have the ability to perform a new major behavioral shift/choice to substantially decrease their consumption of bamboo. >In some cases, lack of behavioral plasticity may in turn depend reciprocally on the presence of, e.g., anatomical and/or genetic features that were selected within the context of the behavior acquired during the initial behavioral shift. For instance, the overspecialization of the “panda's thumb” might not allow pandas to revert to the more generalized type of diet that their ancestors had. Apart from natural selection (i.e. after the pandas started to mainly eat bamboo those random mutations that happened to be advantageous within that niche were selected), the lack of plasticity could also be enhanced by phenomena such as genetic drift, i.e., to a random sampling of those organisms that had those genetic features.

>Due to the loss of the initial behavioral plasticity that allowed the animals to adopt the new behavior, the persistence of that behavior
Take this and consider the way human social behavoir emerged and the way our society has evolved to the point of complex-adaptive behavoir where we are sufficiently enslaved to it. The anthropocene and evolutionary traps. The beginning was the end. Only holistic self-awareness can save us.

>>8958507
I'm not a postmodernist, but you're not wrong. :^)
Hierarchies aren't actual entities and the abstraction isn't the realization of actual entities. As for the explanatory power the concept is the opposite of useful.
>>8958540
Yeah it's hypothetical

>>8949265
Hello /pol/ that shit happens all over Brazil. I've seen footage of loggers burning Native American kids alive. Much, much worse happens to the Amazonians
People do rotten things when their life's are insecure. You probably aren't human but if you are you should know what it feels like to lose the world you live in. Combine that with extreme poverty and dysfunction imposed on tradtional socio-ecological systems by economic and regular colonialism. Knowing little about this new world that landed on top of yours, and were are going to get some fucked up people.
>that they can't get arrested for anything, because there are tons of government sponsored entities that protect them from anything bad, no matter how horrible they've acted.
The irony, what corporate-state powers is doing to them results in extinction of their ecosystem and the cultures that occupied it. Their land was taken, and still is being done today.
I'm not suprised you are ignorant about this, the evil people doing the crime are the same people who give you information about the world around you.
More importantly ecological systems have a right to live like you and me. Also, if you are some kind of niave utilitarian, the Amazon being intact is necessary for us to have a chance at surviving the anthropocene. GTFO MY SWAMP