Bret Weinstein

in adaptive evolution space.

If I come at it from the evo-devo side, I see much more description of mechanisms that work like this, but I don't see the revolution that should happen when you've come to understand that you have this very powerful additional evolutionary mechanism

That should be causing a massive uptick in the power of what we can address adaptively.

And it does not seem to be there.

Now, you know, I'm not in a university anymore.

I'm not primarily working as a biologist.

So it's possible I've missed something.

But there is, well, I mean, as you know, we have massively dysfunctional institutions.

And they...

I've thought my field was stuck in a ditch since really before I entered it.

The last major progress in my field was 1976.

Really?

That's what I think, yeah.

And what was that?

The selfish gene.

provides us a mechanism.

It's basically a synthesis of what we understand about adaptive evolution.

It provides the first gateway to understand cultural evolution in rigorous Darwinian terms.

I don't think that that...

I don't think we ever went through it.