The problem with this view, Russell explains, is that it implies a level of far-sightedness on the part of the first breeders that defies all evolutionary experience: "Wolves do not obey human commands, and it is hard to imagine that people persisted in raising dangerous animals for uncertain benefits far in the future".
The difference was suggested to be a result of recognition of predators compared to non-predators or an artefact of evolutionary experience.
Attenborough hasn't time actually to tell us this, but one imagines that a good few millennia of evolutionary experience went into the grouse's decision that 60 miles was about the right distance to be away from the waterhole.
In other words, the a priori structure of sensors and actuators could incorporate much of the evolutionary "experience" of relevant perturbations, and an agent's life-time adaptation would then just fine-tune the balance by maximizing e.g. empowerment or a related quantity.
Spaceflight presents a novel environment that is outside the evolutionary experience of terrestrial organisms.
Upon withdrawal of all acellular carbohydrates, the GI microbiota is proposed to return to a less inflammatory form consistent with our evolutionary experience, and one much more resistant to the exacerbatory effects of dietary fats, consistent with the interplay between fructose and fats seen in rats.
"Going crazy," she suggests, "could just be the evolutionary experience trying to hurry up mind expansion". She's a "creative consultant" to a group of aliens doing research on earth, as well as the unwitting means by which all of Ms. Wagner's other characters are drawn into a single, madly coherent whole.
The prey species Vulpes vulpes finds in Australia were/are completely defenseless, having to evolutionary experience with the fox.
Since human beings have little evolutionary experience with such illnesses, and therefore little resistance to them, they can be particularly dangerous.
Yet at some level, our bodies, our minds, can't get over it, stand apart from our blasé selves and take in the experience in complete amazement, nothing in our evolutionary experience having prepared us for the miracle of, in the span of a day, waking up in one continent and going to sleep in another.
