Freitag, 10. September 2010

We humans are in a very special condition. On the one hand, we are able to decontextualise so many things by technical means, on the other hand, we are very dependent on our social network, our parents... We could call this recontextualisation. Recontextualisation means, that something is moved from a more distant position in a more proximal one to something. An example is parental care in animals. The adults with the better decontextulisation features transmit resources to the less decontextualised larvae or cubs, that are now dependent.

An example for a Hymenopterae-Larva, which is totally indepent in its development, but has the disadvantage of not having the possibilities of a fully adult insect (imago) e.g. ability to fly.Larva of a sawfly.

An example for a recontextualised Hymenopterae-Larva, which is totally dependent on more decontextualised adults: Larva of the Hornet. The advantage is the separation of acquisition of food(imago) and growing(larva).

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