Alien Evolution

The study of the evolutionary pathways and forces that have shaped life on other worlds, under environmental conditions utterly different from Earth's. This field theorizes about how natural selection might work in a high-gravity ocean world, under a perpetual twilight, or in a volatile, tectonically supercharged environment. It asks how sensory systems, locomotion, and intelligence might develop when the fundamental rules of the game—gravity, chemistry, energy sources—are changed.

Example: Theorizing about the Alien Evolution of the "sky-whales" of a gas giant: they might evolve hydrogen-filled bladders for buoyancy, filter-feeding on atmospheric microbes, and develop complex sonar for navigation in the perpetual clouds. It's using the logic of Darwinian evolution, but with a completely alien starting deck of environmental cards.

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 3, 2026

Community Evolution Theory

The study of how communities change and diversify over time through processes analogous to biological evolution: variation in practices, inheritance of successful norms, and selection pressures from the environment (both physical and social). It posits that communities are not static, but are subject to evolutionary forces where external challenges (resource scarcity, conflict) and internal innovation lead to the "descent with modification" of social structures, with some community forms thriving and others going extinct.

Community Evolution Theory Example: The Amish communities in North America exhibit Community Evolution. Faced with the selection pressure of modern technology, variations emerged: some groups strictly prohibit the grid ("Old Order"), others allow limited tech for business ("New Order"). These "speciated" community types inherit and modify core traditions, showing evolutionary adaptation to a changing cultural environment.

by Dumuabzu February 5, 2026

Critical Evolutionary Psychology

A critical examination of evolutionary psychology—questioning its assumptions about human nature, its methods for inferring ancestral environments, and its political implications. Critical Evolutionary Psychology asks: Are evolutionary stories just-so stories? Do they naturalize contemporary social arrangements by projecting them onto the past? How does evolutionary psychology handle cultural variation? Whose interests are served by claims that patriarchy, violence, or greed are "evolved"? Critical Evolutionary Psychology doesn't deny evolution; it insists that claims about our evolutionary past must be scrutinized for evidence, alternative explanations, and political context.

Critical Evolutionary Psychology "They claim women are naturally monogamous and men naturally promiscuous—therefore patriarchy is natural. Critical Evolutionary Psychology asks: what's the evidence? How much cultural variation is ignored? Could the same data support different stories? Evolution happened, but the stories we tell about it reflect our present, not just our past. Critical Evolutionary Psychology examines the politics behind the prehistory."

by Dumu The Void March 3, 2026

Marxist Evolutionary Psychology

A Marxist critique and reconstruction of evolutionary psychology—examining how claims about human nature reflect class interests, how evolutionary stories can naturalize capitalism, and how a materialist approach might understand human evolution differently. Marxist Evolutionary Psychology asks: Does evolutionary psychology's focus on competition reflect capitalist ideology? How might cooperation, sharing, and egalitarianism be as "evolved" as hierarchy? Could a Marxist evolutionary psychology examine how modes of production shape human evolution, and how human nature is both biologically based and historically variable? It doesn't deny evolution; it insists that evolutionary stories are never neutral.

"They say humans are naturally competitive—look at our ancestors. Marxist Evolutionary Psychology asks: which ancestors? For most of human history, we were foragers, and foragers share. The 'natural' competition story reflects capitalism, not prehistory. Evolution happened, but the stories we tell about it tell us more about the present than the past. Marxism insists on asking: whose interests do these stories serve?"

by Dumu The Void March 3, 2026

Leftist Evolutionary Psychology

A leftist approach to evolutionary psychology—questioning conservative assumptions about human nature while taking evolution seriously. Leftist Evolutionary Psychology asks: What if cooperation, sharing, and egalitarianism are as evolved as competition? What if human nature includes immense plasticity, shaped by social environments? What if evolutionary stories that naturalize hierarchy are ideology, not science? Leftist Evolutionary Psychology doesn't deny evolution; it insists that evolutionary explanations must be scrutinized for their political content and that human nature is both real and variable.

"They say men are naturally aggressive, women naturally nurturing—therefore patriarchy is natural. Leftist Evolutionary Psychology asks: what's the evidence? How much cultural variation? Could the same data support different stories? Evolution happened, but the stories we tell about it reflect our politics. Leftist evolutionary psychology tells different stories—about cooperation, about plasticity, about possibility."

by Dumu The Void March 3, 2026

Yarvinian evolution

"Yarvinian evolution" is the system by which dumb people arrive at dumb ideas instead of smart ideas because they think the dumb idea "sounds more badass".

The name is a hybrid between "Darwinian evolution" and "Yarvin" as in Curtis Yarvin, the "Dark Enlightenment" blogger-turned-philosopher whose grade-school-level dumb ideas were taken seriously by the likes of Peter Thiel and J. D. Vance.

The advent of conservative, "red pilled" or "black pilled" memes is a textbook example of Yarvinian evolution.

by snknarf- February 15, 2025

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by James Gandolfartknocker March 17, 2025