Using evolutionary theories

Arguing from evolutionary perspective
Reporting theory of evolution
Defending evolutionary theory

Description

Using evolutionary theories as a strategy involves applying principles of natural selection, adaptation, and survival to address complex problems. This approach identifies successful traits, behaviors, or systems, and encourages their replication or enhancement while phasing out ineffective ones. By fostering continuous improvement and resilience, it remedies stagnation, inefficiency, and maladaptation in organizations, policies, or communities, ensuring solutions remain responsive to changing environments and emerging challenges.

Context

The prior history of an organization (its epigenetic history) specifies not only physical characteristics but in addition its underlying epigenetic landscape which is the summation of previous generations' success and failure in interacting with the environment. This is characterized by the epithet 'ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny'. Ontogenic recapitulation of phylogeny is also a property of evolving systems whose descriptions are stored in a process language (as with biological organisms) such that in their development they go through stages that resemble some of the forms of their evolutionary ancestors.