Evolution is a language

If you look at it in another way,

Evolution is a language and a conversation of natural selection and Darwinism between species recorded on a carried ledger called DNA.

Each living being has a ledger book or a record book of their history, and this is passed down from the parents and their ancestors at the point of conception. Beyond the point of conception, the epigenetic expression of the ledger, the DNA, is influenced by interactions and amendments from the relationships around, like your parents or your surviving ancestors or even events survived by and revitalizing vicariously your ancestors.

As one animal kills another, and as another animal hides to survive, the offspring is the message that gets passed, the baton, the communication that is sent into the future to propogate generations of lineage.

Even plants too are survived by their offspring, thus evolution itself is like the evolving language. Evolution is a communication through time.

There are even conversations within this language of evolution. For instance, the term ‘coevolution’ exists, and it means the paired and reciprocated evolution between two closely interacting species in response to evolutionary changes of the other species. (arguably parenting is coevolutionary)

This is more like a direct line of communication to either symbiotic species or competitive rival species.

Like humans that advance with dogs in a symbiotic relation, our interaction has invariably resulted in coevolution of canine familia.

As predators adapt to hunt faster prey, prey may adapt to create camouflage. The predator evolves, the prey evolves, and there is this sort of dance between them as they both evolve.

In a not so evolutionary specific take, Humans and their desire for progress and competition has bred quite the results. Whether in the workplace or manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, our technology is something that evolves in line with our humanity. Or even lack of humanity. Weapons (and human tool generational iterations) could be argued to be co-evolutionary with the human race.

Tribalism and Nationalism is a form of coevolutionary rivalry.

Myrmecophytes are plants the rely on ants for their survival and propagation. These plants would then evolve in tandem with their care takers. Some plants even develop internal hollow tunnel structures to give access and house ants while also providing sweet nectar to lure and feed ants. Some plants even produce seeds that are then dispersed and quasi-planted by the ants.

One particular species of plant, the Myrmecodia beccarii, house both golden ants and eggs of Apollo jewel butterflies. The three species live in coexistence, where the ants will carry the butteryfly eggs inside the plant for protection, as the plant provides food for the ants, the ants also provide protection for the plant and the butterfly eggs, and the butterfly provides pollination for the plant. It’s a communal network, a tight ecosystem.

Also the Myrmecodia Beccarii is an epiphytic plant, meaning that it grows on the side of a tree. So there are technically four very interconnected species in this relationship, not including the forest and the rest of the world that is technically also part of the global ecosystem. Let alone the universal ecosystem.

Point is, coevolution is a thing and it’s further affected by our inter-connected interactions with other evolving species.

Carrying this conversation forward

You can now learn to see that there are conversations nested within other conversations.

When you’re dating someone, it’s not just one date, it’s a culmination of dates.

When you’re talking and interacting with someone, it’s not just one interaction, it’s multiple throughout your life time. First impressions and more. Tertiary interactions and more.

So when you speak, know that your smaller conversations are tied to the larger dialogue. The small talks with a person, are influenced by and to the small talks ‘about’ that person with other people.

In the realm of politics, peace talks are a series of negotiations. It is also a multi-domain conversation, as interactions from trade embargos to international incidents play a role in the relationship. As the relationship changes, so to does the conversation.

So try to look into the depths and levels of conversation you have with other people, with cities, with nature, with your home. Talking isn’t the only form of communication, as interaction is a more intuitive and encompassing interaction as well.

Ultimately, conversations nested above and below their corresponding baskets of conversations is affecting a bond. A bond called relationship. So see how your relationship is with yourself, and the things, and the people around you. If they are growing and synergizing in a coevolutionary way, then that’s cool. If not, perhaps evaluate how to salvage or repair it, if not it may be worth ‘cutting cords’ and ‘ties’.

Perhaps I’m just lost in thought again, yet it remains true that

Words Mean Things