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This is even more interesting if you think of all human artifacts as being equivalent to anthills and beaver dams. 1) Trees are natural and trees create leaves
by FredPret 5y ago
This is even more interesting if you think of all human artifacts as being equivalent to anthills and beaver dams.
1) Trees are natural and trees create leaves with a solar efficiency of x
2) Humans are natural and we create solar panels with efficiency x + y
- chriswarbo 5y agoThis is Dawkins' idea of "extended phenotype". Normally a gene's phenotype refers to its effects on the body of an individual organism posessing that gene, like hair colour or immune response. A gene's extended phenotype includes effects external to particular organisms, like nests, deforestation, changes to the chemical makeup of the atmosphere, etc.