April 2020
Evolutionary lessons for an interplanetary future
... other members of their species. Over generations, they adapt to the local conditions through a combination of mutation and natural selection. The Galapagos finches that helped inspire Darwin evolved beaks with different shapes and sizes because...
January 2023
Evolving human space culture – reflections on humanity’s cultural potential in space
... ‘Teleonomy’, the goal-directedness of living beings, right down to the sub-molecular strata, follows the tenets of natural selection, that biological processes are a form of choice on a fundamental level, and that every aspect of our structure...
July 2014
A revitalised space sector reduces costs and makes space data more accessible
... advice as well as access to investors. While companies with the best ideas may prosper and grow in a process of ‘natural selection’, it is also important that good ideas get the opportunity to germinate and that unnecessary company failures are...
