Bret Weinstein

And this is just as Darwinian as protein-coding genes.

It's just vastly more powerful with respect to taking a form that you've already got and finding a similar form that you don't yet have.

Now there's lots of nuances about how this could work.

There's lots of questions I certainly can't answer.

I will say, as I was mentioning at the top, this story seems to be largely unaddressed

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.