Analogies for Sustainable Development/Selection as winnowing

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Wilson (2015) :

“Centuries and even millennia of cultural evolution were required to winnow the self-organizing processes that work, like needles from the haystack of self-organizing processes that don’t work!”

“Most regulatory processes in biological organisms are self-organizing, but a selection process was required to winnow the self-organizing processes that work from the many that don’t work.”