Glosario EN-ES de histología #glossary #reference #english #spanish #histology #biology #medicine

"Before 1966, it was not unusual to see serious biologists advocating evolutionary hypotheses that we would now regard as magical thinking. These muddled notions played an important historical role in the development of later evolutionary theory, error calling forth correction; like the folly of English kings provoking into existence the Magna Carta and constitutional democracy. As an example of romance, Vero Wynne-Edwards, Warder Allee, and J.L. Brereton, among others, believed that predators would voluntarily restrain their breeding to avoid overpopulating their habitat and exhausting the prey population." Spoiler alert: this does not happen. What actually happens is pretty f***ed up.

Thought I had bookmarked this a long time ago: "In a way, Darwin *discovered* God--a God that failed to match the preconceptions of theology, and so passed unheralded. If Darwin had discovered that life was created by an intelligent agent--a bodiless mind that loves us, and will smite us with lightning if we dare say otherwise--people would have said 'My gosh! That's God!' But instead Darwin discovered a strange alien God--not comfortably 'ineffable', but *really genuinely different from us.* Evolution is not a God, but if it were, it wouldn't be Jehovah. It would be H.P. Lovecraft's Azathoth, the blind idiot God burbling chaotically at the center of everything, surrounded by the thin monotonous piping of flutes."

"One hundred years from now, the role of science and technology will be about becoming part of nature rather than trying to control it.

So much of science and technology has been about pursuing efficiency, scale and “exponential growth” at the expense of our environment and our resources. We have rewarded those who invent technologies that control our triumph over nature in some way. This is clearly not sustainable.

We must understand that we live in a complex system where everything is interrelated and interdependent and that everything we design impacts a larger system.

My dream is that 100 years from now, we will be learning from nature, integrating with nature and using science and technology to bring nature into our lives to make human beings and our artifacts not only zero impact but a positive impact to the natural system that we live in."

Joi Ito's Near-Perfect Explanation of the Next 100 Years & After the ecopalypse: Cyborg plants