Evolution and Selection

Mental models

Variation, selection and retention will optimise a population without anyone designing it, and will keep doing so as the environment moves. It reframes competition as co-evolution: advantage erodes because rivals adapt, not because management got worse. Markets, industries and strategies are all populations under selection rather than machines under control.

20 books · 2 people behind it · 4 resources

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  1. The Selfish GeneRichard Dawkins, 1976
  2. The Red QueenMatt Ridley, 1993
  3. Adaptive MarketsAndrew W. Lo, 2017

The people behind it 2

Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.

Academics 1

Andrew W. Lo1 book here

Journalists 1

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Matt Ridley3 books here

Resources 4

Books 20

On the Origin of Species
T1 On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin · 1859
Open Library
Mohnish PabraiNaval RavikantNick SleepCharlie MungerPaul Graham
The Selfish Gene
T1 The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins · 1976
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Balaji S. SrinivasanCharlie MungerMohnish PabraiBob MetcalfeBrian ArmstrongElon MuskEv WilliamsNaval RavikantNick SzaboPaul GrahamPhil LibinStewart Brand
The Origin of Species
T1 The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin · 2002 · The founding text of natural selection
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Jim CollinsNaval RavikantPatrick CollisonPaul GrahamTim Ferriss
The Gene
T1 The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2016 · History of heredity from Mendel to gene editing
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Bill GatesDaniel PetreJames CameronReid Hoffman
The Eighth Day of Creation
T2 The Eighth Day of Creation
Horace Freeland Judson · 1969 · The definitive history of molecular biology's founding discoveries
Open Library
Naval Ravikant
The Blind Watchmaker
T2 The Blind Watchmaker
Richard Dawkins · 1986
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Jim CollinsMohnish PabraiPatrick CollisonCharlie Munger
The Red Queen
T2 The Red Queen
Matt Ridley · 1993
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Mohnish PabraiNaval RavikantSeth KlarmanNick Szabo
The Beak of the Finch
T2 The Beak of the Finch
Jonathan Weiner · 1994 · Evolution observed in real time among the Galapagos finches
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Sam Altman
The Language Instinct
T2 The Language Instinct
Steven Pinker · 1994 · Language as an evolved instinct; a Munger multidisciplinary reading
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Charlie MungerMohnish Pabrai
The Moral Animal
T2 The Moral Animal
Robert Wright · 1994 · Evolutionary psychology as an account of motive and reciprocity
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Ryan HolidayMorgan HouselReid HoffmanTom Bilyeu
Genome
T2 Genome
Matt Ridley · 1999 · Chromosome-by-chromosome tour of human genetics; a Munger latticework staple
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Charlie MungerMohnish PabraiNaval RavikantMark Zuckerberg
The Origin of Wealth
T2 The Origin of Wealth
Eric D. Beinhocker · 2006
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Ryan Peterson
Adaptive Markets
T2 Adaptive Markets
Andrew W. Lo · 2017
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Who We Are and How We Got Here
T2 Who We Are and How We Got Here
David Reich · 2018 · Ancient DNA rewriting human population history
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Balaji S. SrinivasanMarc AndreessenMichael MauboussinNaval Ravikant
The Third Chimpanzee
T3 The Third Chimpanzee
Jared Diamond · 1991 · Human behaviour read from evolutionary biology; a Munger latticework staple
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Charlie MungerMohnish Pabrai
River Out of Eden
T3 River Out of Eden
Richard Dawkins · 1995 · Genes as a river of digital information; a short Dawkins primer
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Ray Dalio
The Origins of Virtue
T3 The Origins of Virtue
Matt Ridley · 1996 · Cooperation as an evolved strategy; reciprocity and the prisoner's dilemma
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Mohnish PabraiNaval RavikantRyan Holiday
The Sports Gene
T3 The Sports Gene
David Epstein · 2013 · Talent, training and genetics in elite athletic performance
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Bill MillerMark CubanMichael Mauboussin
Blueprint
T3 Blueprint
Robert Plomin · 2018 · Behavioural genetics on how much of an outcome is inherited
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Bill GatesJames CameronMichael Mauboussin
Creation: Life and How to Make It
T4 Creation: Life and How to Make It
Steve Grand · 2000 · Artificial life and emergence; complexity built from very simple rules
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Mohnish PabraiJeff Bezos