Adaptation.

What is this wonderful gift God gave women, I wondered?

It is generally hard to adapt to living in a foreign culture.

Uncertainty is what makes play fun.

And as a result, our ideas do accumulate, and our technology progresses.

Now for an intelligent being like our fly, this policy is not written in stone but rather changes as the animal learns from experience.

There's nothing more vulnerable than that.

What they don't go back and get, those seeds become whitebark.

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And most of them, with the exception of SCRlPT and Cha0, they did not demonstrate any real social skills in the outside world only on the Web.

Think of it like timereleased chemotherapy.

So this isn't expensive pumps or valves.

The chairs you're sitting in, the lights in this auditorium, my microphone, the iPads and iPods that you carry around with you all are a result of cumulative cultural adaptation.

If I have a little extra time, I'll tell you about a case of crow infidelity that illustrates that nicely.

The changes that allowed us to do that, the evolution of this highly adaptable brain that we all carry around with us, allowing us to create novel cultures, allowing us to develop the diversity that we see on a whirlwind trip like the one I've just been on.

But how do we not remain silent in the face of abuse?

And I want to be very clear that this notion of better really makes no sense in an evolutionary or natural selection context.

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And you do it automatically and non consciously.

Question Was domestication good for sheep?

Reality is both subjective and malleable.

Man has a great capacity to adapt to environmental changes.

So many people think that life took millions of years to kick in.

And every culture comes up with its own understanding of life, its own customized version of mythology.

All right.

I mean the world has changed out of all proportion to what we would recognize even 1,000 or 2,000 years ago.

The smaller the ice mass, the faster it responds to climate.

Rather than revolution, we're much more interested in evolution, this idea that things gradually evolve by adapting and improvising to the changes of the world.

We're last place in Europe in innovation.

And the opposite of read write creativity, then, we should call

But whatever you do in that program, it has to be fully supported by the people, meaning that you also have to adjust it to the local, cultural values.

Now, it's easier said than done, because I'm saying it now, but I'm telling you it's not easy in male culture for guys to challenge each other, which is one of the reasons why part of the paradigm shift that has to happen is not just understanding these issues as men's issues, but they're also leadership issues for men.

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Now to many commentators, cumulative cultural adaptation, or social learning, is job done, end of story.

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Not attracted sexually, per Se, but most drawn.

And what's even more profound about the design is that it's adaptive.

You can have culture without exchange.

But when you get into it, you realize there are pressures on men.