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Hurray! and Argh!

Boxes and Arrows: The Sociobiology of Information Architecture presents an interesting view - that organisms have evolved to solve the problem of information overload. I imagine there’s a lot here, but I only got a third of the way through the article before I felt the overriding urge to post on it. It seems like a worthwhile question to ponder, but the author’s apparently shaky grasp on evolutionary theory (sociobiology ‘brilliantly punctured the prevalent scientific view that animal behavior could be adequately explained through the traditional disciplinary filters of biology, chemistry, and genetic inheritance?’) and simplifying writing style (Gould alone is responsible for ‘punctuated equilibrium’?) are making reading this a difficult endeavor…