by Rafe Sagarin
brain’s storage system
complex adaptive systems
immune system example
reversed hierarchy
sensors and
specialization and
Deepwater Horizon disaster
Deer and signaling
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. See DARPA
Deguchi Nao
Department of Defense
decentralization and
lack of adaptability (fig.)
Osprey
“Stanley,”
See also Afghanistan war; DARPA; Iraq war
Department of Homeland Security
bureaucracies and
color-coded warning scheme
decentralization and
funding to states
NOAA security and
organizational chart(fig.)
public using information
TSA
uncertainty rule of nature and
See also Security
Dinosaur extinction theory
Disease outbreaks
biodiversity as defense
CDC and
decentralized networks and
host variety and
pathogen moving from nonhumans to humans
Spanish Flu pandemic (1918)
threat summary
time importance
DNA
basic molecules of
redundancy and
similarities across species
structure discovery
Dobbs, David
Dogs
marking territory
rattlesnake aversion training
sense of smell
Donlan, Josh
Drones/robots use in conflicts
Drug addiction and adolescents
Drug traffickers/law enforcement
advantages of traffickers
escalation and
experiential learning (mētis)
information and
motivation differences
technical learning (techne)
Dziekan, Mike
E
Ecological niches
Ecology of Fear (Davis)
“Ecosystem” of finance
Ecosystem services
calculating value of
overview
See also Nature’s security services
Ecosystems
redundancy and
resilience concept and
species diversity importance
See also Sea of Cortez/ecosystem; specific types
Egypt and habituation effect
Ehrlich, Paul/Anne
Electric symbiosis
Emergent properties and symbiosis
Environmental protection
adaptable cascade and
decentralized organizations
public trust doctrine and
Escalation
evolutionary arms race
IEDs example
information and
missile defense shield and
motivation differences and
resource differences and
See also Cold War
Evolution
basic tenets of
convergent evolution
description
prediction and
replication of good ideas
self/nonself identification importance
“survival of the fittest” and
variation and
Evolution and Escalation (Vermeij)
Evolution of irrational behavior
addiction module and
changing irrational behavior
examples
sacred values and
self-nonself identification and
See also Religious belief systems; Security / eliminating irrational behavior; specific groups
Evolutionary arms race
Evolutionary psychologists
Extinction
dinosaurs
“nuclear winter” theory
F
Facial structure/expressions
Facultative symbiosis
FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) (fig.)
Fish
cleaner wrasses and
risk responses
symbiosis effects
Flood of 1927 (Mississippi River)
Fort Hood Army base shootings
Fungi and symbiosis
Futures markets
G
“Gaia hypotheses,”
Garvin, David
Gates, Robert
Geneva Conventions
Gibbons, Gillian
Gilly, Bill
Gladwell, Malcolm
Goldfish and cooperation
“Good enough” vs. perfection
Google
Google Flu Trends
Gopnik, Alison
Graffiti purpose
Granek, Elise
Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck)
Gretzky, Wayne
Guinea worms
Gulf of California. See Sea of Cortez/ecosystem
H
Habituation
Haldane, J.B.S.
Hantavirus
Hardin, Garret
Hasan, Nidal Malik
Hawken, Paul
Heat-shock proteins
Henrich, Joseph
Hewatt, Willis
Heyoka
Hitchens, Christopher
HIV
Hockey players facial structure study
Homeland Security. See Department of Homeland Security
Homeland Security Threat Level Advisory System
Honeybees and information
Hopkins Marine Station, Monterey
Hurricane Ike/“Ike Dike,”
Hurricane Katrina
damage inside levee walls
effects
oil spill cleanup and
response
wetlands destruction prior to
See also New Orleans
Hurricane Rita
Hussein, Saddam
I
Iceland’s volcanic eruptions
IEDs
Afghanistan/Iraq (fig.)
decrease
U.S. troop deaths(fig.)
Immune system
adaptable organization and
fevers and
learning and
regulators in brain
Information
creating/reducing uncertainty and
escalation and
filters and
neutralizing threats and
public information effects
receivers of
use/sharing importance
vulnerability and
See also Signaling
Internet
terrorist recruitment
traits
Invictus (film)
Iraq war
MRAPs and(fig.)
Muslim-on-Muslim violence
Ospreys and
Powell Doctrine and
recruits for jihad
U.S. troops leaving and
warfare changes with
weaker side winning in
Iraq war and adaptability
combat level vs. leaders
IEDs/IED protection (fig.)
infrastructure work
local people and
Wilson’s question to Rumsfeld
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
future vs. past
sacred values and
Israeli-Palestinian relationship
cooperative symbiosis and
Middle East consortium
scientific paper cooperation,
Israelis
sacred values and
settlers
J
Jackson, Phil
Jellyfish
JIEDDO (Joint IED Defeat Organization)
Johnson, Dominic
Jones, R.V.
Jordan, Ferenc
> K
Kennedy, John F.
Kenney, Michael
drug traffickers/law enforcement studies
terrorists/counter-terrorists and
Kin selection
Kish, Daniel
L
Learning
associative learning
benchmarks and
brain morphology/physiology and
business approach
capabilities summary
description
engineers approach
experiential learning
as force of nature
“from failure,”
generalization and new experiences
human babies
human development and
human/nonhuman comparison
memories and
natural selection and
new situations and
organizational learning
parental care and
predicting the future and
security and
selective forces and
sense of “self ” and
signal differences and
from success
technical learning
Learning adaptively
adaptable cascade and
approaches
central control vs.
Darwin and
hypothetical thinking and
imagination and
low-probability/ one-time events and
naturalists and
observation and
“Learning from Samples of One or Fewer,”
Legume plants and bacteria
Levin, Simon
Lichens and symbiosis
“Life-dinner principle,”
Limpets
Linked (Barabasi)
Lipana, Noel
Living Cirripedia (Darwin)
“Living shorelines,”
Los Angeles, California
concrete surfaces and
natural threats summary
water mismanagement
Louv, Richard
Lovelock, James
Lyme disease
M
Machiavelli, Niccolo
Madin, Elizabeth
Manakin birds and cooperation
Mandela, Nelson
Mangrove forests
evidence of protective services
storms/tsunami protection
Margulis, Lyn
background
cooperation research
symbiogenesis
Maritime Administration, United States
Marmots described
Marmots threat responses studies
“Cool Hand Lukes”/usefulness and
description
“Nervous Nellies”/usefulness and
Robo Badger threat
uncertainty and
variation in responses
McDougall, Christopher
Medicine
Darwinian medicine
over-prescription effects
See also Disease outbreaks; Nature’s security services/medicine
Mekong River consortium
Memories
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) disease
Middle East consortium
See also Israeli-Palestinian relationship
Militias (U.S.)
Mimicry
Mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles
Missile defense shield
Mola mola (ocean sunfish)
Moses
Motivation differences
MRAP (mine-resistant ambush-protected) vehicles
Music file-sharing networks
Mussels
Mutualistic symbiosis
cheaters and
description
Mutually assured destruction, Cold War’s
N
Napolitano, Janet
Narco-traffickers/law enforcement. See Drug traffickers/law enforcement
Nation-states and conflicts
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Natural selection
description
humans and
variation and
“Nature Deficit Disorder,”
Nature journal
Nature’s security services
adaptability and
calculating value
Earth as self-regulating system
overview
running barefoot example
summary
Nature’s security services/medicine
bilirubin and
biodiversity protection and
Darwinian medicine
fever and
vaccine development
Nature’s security services/water
cacti filtering water
natural rivers and
technological solutions vs.
See also Water issues; Wetlands
Nazis and eugenic philosophy
NCEAS (National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis)
Nesse, Randolph
Networks
attacks on London (2005) and
examples in nature
failure reasons
nodes and
U.S. strategy in Afghanistan example
See also Internet
New Orleans
“100-year flood” concept and
Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO)
restoring wetlands
sea level and
wetlands destruction/effects
See also Hurricane Katrina
“New START” treaty (U.S./Russia)
New York Times
New Yorker, The
Nielsen, Lars Peter
9/11 attacks
change in warfare following
learning from failure and
response to hijacking before/after
See also Al-Qaeda
9/11 Commission Report
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Nuclear weapons
“Nuclear winter” theory
Nudibranchs and anemone stinging cells
O
Oak-chaparral woodland
Obama, Barack
Obligate symbiosis
Octopuses
bite of
blue-ringed
capacity to blend/hide
den use
escapes from lab chambers
ink sac/use
mating behavior
mimic octopus
Ricketts on
security/adaptability overview
sharks at Seattle Aquarium and
Steinbeck on
tool (coconut shells) use
Ohno, Susumo
Oil spills
Cosco Busan
Deepwater Horizon
Exxon Valdez
following hurricanes Katrina/Rita
On the Origin of Species (Darwin)
Oomoto (Japanese Shinto group)
Organization in nature
similarities across levels
simple building blocks of
See also Decentralized organization in nature
Osprey
Congressional Tilt-rotor Technology Coalition
development process
funding/jobs
problems/compromises with
redundancy and
Ostrom, Elinor
Ovechkin, Alexander
Owen, William
P
Palestinians
sacred values of
See also Israeli-Palestinian conflict
“Paradox of the expert,”
Parasites
changing host behavior
symbiosis and
Patriot Act
Peace of Westphalia (1647) effects
Peacocks
Perfection vs. “good enough,”
> “Ping-ping diplomacy” (China-U.S.)
Portola Expedition (1769)
Postal service security (U.S.)
Powell, Colin
Powell Doctrine
Predation failure
Protein construction
Protozoans and cooperation
Public trust doctrine
R
Reagan, Ronald
Recording Industry Association of America
“Red Queen hypothesis,”
Redundancy
adaptable cascade and
failures and
financial systems after 9/11 and
importance of
insurgent forces and
Internet and
“rightsizing” and
“trimming the fat” and
Redundancy in nature
acacia trees and ants
cactus and pack rats
DNA and
ecosystems and
evolutionary filters and
evolutionary innovation and
human/dog senses and
“imaginative redundancy,”
multiple human individuals and
octopus as hunter/hunted
protein construction and
resilience concept and
“specialized redundancy” example
Reid, Richard
Religious belief systems
addictive systems and
case of Gillian Gibbons and
changing dangerous systems
debating students about
early world development of
group identification and
“intelligent design” (creationism) and
recruitment
rites of passage and
signaling group loyalty
written materials and
See also Evolution of irrational behavior
Resource differences and escalation
“Rewilding North America” idea
Ricketts, Edward F.
background/description
biological applications and
Cannery Row laboratory
observation and
on octopuses
reversed hierarchy in nature
Sea of Cortez/journey
Steinbeck and
on variation in nature
World War II and
Rischard, Jean-François
RNA translation
protein construction and
species similarities/differences
viruses and
Rodman, Dennis
Roundup herbicide
Rumsfeld, Donald
Running barefoot example
Russell, James
Ruttenberg, Ben
S
Sacred values
evolution of irrational behavior
substitution timing
“symbolic tradeoffs” and
Sagan, Carl
Sagarin, Rafe
security analyses beginnings
student with religious belief system
tide pools and
Sageman, Marc
Salamanders and algae
