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Technologies Based on Evolution

Tony

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I've been trying to find technologies that have been developed or improved based on knowledge gained through research into evolution, but they have (surprisingly) hard to find on the web. Can anyone help me out?
 
Farming. Check out the USSR's failed attempt at agriculture in an industrialized country based on some other theory. End result: Hundreds of thousands to millions dead.
 
How did knowledge of evolution aid in those areas?
 
The Soviet experiment shows that knowledge of evolution (which was the main difference between their farming and the United States' farming) allows farms to feed people. When the USSR attempted a different theory for farming their entire agricultural system collapsed.
 
Dinwar said:
The Soviet experiment shows that knowledge of evolution (which was the main difference between their farming and the United States' farming) allows farms to feed people. When the USSR attempted a different theory for farming their entire agricultural system collapsed.
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Maybe. I think it was more their collectivist, top-down statist model that was so disastrous. Killing millions of farmers off didn't help things either.
 
Dinwar said:
The Soviet experiment shows that knowledge of evolution (which was the main difference between their farming and the United States' farming) allows farms to feed people. When the USSR attempted a different theory for farming their entire agricultural system collapsed.
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Ok. But how? How was knowledge of evolution put into practice to improve the US's farming techniques?
 
randman said:
Maybe. I think it was more their collectivist, top-down statist model that was so disastrous. Killing millions of farmers off didn't help things either.
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This isn't a debate, please take this somewhere else. The purpose of this thread is to gather information.
 
If you want a detailed discussion you'll have to look that up. I don't have the book on hand for the reference, unfortunately. I DO know that it was caused by one fringe lunatic gaining political favor, but that's only why the ToE was abbandoned; for the actual practice you'll want details, and unfortunately I don't have them readily available.
 
Wikipedia has a small entry on the applications of evolution:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applications_of_evolution

If scientists and educators want to increase the public's understanding and acceptance of evolution, I think explaining how evolution has impacted real world technologies is a good place to start. Right now, this area seems woefully under-promoted.
 
D'rok is correct. I knew I'd recognize the name as soon as I saw it! :D
 
Tony said:
I've been trying to find technologies that have been developed or improved based on knowledge gained through research into evolution, but they have (surprisingly) hard to find on the web. Can anyone help me out?
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All of bio-tech, since the central organizing principle of all of biology is evolution.
 
Gawdzilla said:
The oil search companies rely on the fossils they find in cores to determine when they're close to oil-bearing strata.
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Dern- I was going to mention that one.

So ironic that the most right-wing, conservative packed industry, which is intrinsic to the US south, relies on knowledge of evolution....
 
Gawdzilla said:
The oil search companies rely on the fossils they find in cores to determine when they're close to oil-bearing strata.
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That... is remarkable. Could you link to a good, straightforward article that I could link people to explaining this fact?
 
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