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Cognition Is Action And Niche Construction
- Cognition is everything an organism does, not just high-level thinking.
- Ines Hipolito defines cognition as action and interaction with the environment, extending to body and niche construction.
Technology As Human Niche Construction
- Technology and tools are a form of human niche construction continuous with nature.
- Hipolito compares toolmaking to beavers building dams to show technology reshapes survival possibilities and selective pressures.
COVID Vaccine As Environment Driven Innovation
- The pandemic pressured an mRNA vaccine to emerge quickly due to environmental demands.
- Hipolito uses the COVID vaccine as an example of how an environment nurtures specific technological innovation.