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Chapters 5 to 8 of Out of Control by Kevin Kelly in diagrammatic format

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Page 1: Chapters 5 - 8 Out of Control Kevin Kelly

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Evoluon is to evolve to your surrounding environment over me. Species 1 for example could be evoloving independantly to a forest

environment.

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Co-evoluon is a mutual agreement between two or more species to “use” each other to live. The buerfly and the milkweed for example start off as two seperate iden es and overme become one.

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A more balanced example of co-evoluon is the acacia plant and the ant. This plant has evolved overme to let the ants live inside it. This co-evoluon has benifits for both pares, instead of the plant being

eaten by herbivores, the ants inside protect their home...

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In return the ants are allowed to feed on the nectar produced by the plant.

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A Microbiologist cloned 200 perfect e.coli bacteria and let them re-produce for 400 generaons before examining what had happened. Bearing in mind that the environment they were in was a completely

featureless bowl, evoluon sll happened.

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Some of the bacteria had mutated to form a new strain of the virus. If this variance happens in a featureless environment then it surely ex-

plains why there are so many different species on Earth?

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Different environments and changing weather condions result in variaons to the millions. Each variaon happening because the

species was evolving to its environment.

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If the Earth was a perfect sphere with no changing weather condions and no extremes then there would be no variaon. This is becuase there would be no need to change to the environment.

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The first feedback control system was introduced into a steel mill. The engineers found that if they had complete control of one element of manufacture, they had in-direct control of all of them. Controlling the speed of the rollers for example means that you dont

need to control the other elemets.

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The “Hanson world” is a closed loop biosphere that has been known to live for over 10 years. Microbes feed the algae, algae feeds the shrimp and when the shrimp die the microbes are replenished. The reproducve cycle of each mean that when one dies, it is replaced.

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This of course meant that Russian sciencest’s had to scale the experiment up to include a human. In a completely closed loop bio-sphere, a man was able to breath for 24 hours by using just 8 gallons of algae. Both lived from each other unl man had to leave due to a

toxic build up of other gases.