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...
April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
... the “painful transition” required to “allow natural selection to tailor individuals to their new environments.” Alexander...current technology barely permits survival and only permits natural population growth via throwing conventional moral standards ...
