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Social Darwinism
2020-07-29
[AspenBeat] A brief history of merit and its abolition
Posted by:Mercutio

#3  An organism is not adapted to it's environment, it's adapted to the environment of it's ancestors.

Let's just hope those mutating sumbitches got it right. If not, well, it not only sucks to be you, but also your non-existent descendants.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-07-29 14:45  

#2  ^
First law of evolutionary ecology.
An organism is not adapted to it's environment, it's adapted to the environment of it's ancestors.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-07-29 14:31  

#1  In the animal world, it’s survival (or, more precisely, reproduction) of the fittest.

err...no. It's successful adaptation to their environment. The problem for human beings is that they create artificial environments and then view them as 'natural'.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-07-29 14:10  

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