Cultural Evolution with Roger's Bacon

About this episode

Roger's Bacon discusses how cultures evolve and compete, drawing parallels with evolutionary biology.

Roger's Bacon is an evolutionary biologist who turned his tool set on the related problem of how cultures mutate, compete, hybridise and evolve. He writes fascinating deep dive articles at Secretorum on substack: https://www.secretorum.life And runs the Seeds of Science blog to give a wider audience to pioneering thinkers: https://www.theseedsofscience.pub Sign up to Recombination Nation on Substack for free weekly articles: https://recombinationnation.substack.com Read Shane's book, Taming the Apocalypse, about the future of post industrial biological technology: https://www.amazon.com/Taming-Apocalypse-Shane-Simonsen-ebook/dp/B0D2XCLJ85/

People in this episode

Host: Shane Simonsen

Guest: Roger's Bacon

Topics covered

• cultural evolution
• evolutionary biology
• mutation
• competition
• hybridization
• science communication

Keywords

• cultural evolution
• evolutionary biology
• mutation
• competition
• hybridization
• science communication
• Roger's Bacon
• Shane Simonsen

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Secretorum, Seeds of Science, Recombination Nation, Amazon

Products: Taming the Apocalypse

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