1 post tagged “darwinism”
From time to time, I've pondered about how our civilized societies have seriously warped traditional Darwinism by protecting the infirmed (out of compassion and charity), the "genetically inferior" (not talking about eugenics here, knee-jerkers, but instead wonders of modern medicine) and the stupid (i.e Legislating and/or ensconcing in signage that which should be innate and/or common sense).
The laws are further warped by economics in which the financially wealthy are far more able to likely to live longer, healthier and well and yet, perhaps in some scientific response, less likely to actually reproduce in numbers proportionate to said wealth.
If we are to look at microbiology as a microcosmic guide, one could hypothesize that we are not, in fact, masters of our own genetic destiny, impervious to our own future demise as a species but instead simply setting ourselves up for one hell of a biological knockout punch.
It's a really interesting subject to noodle on in your spare time when you're not not locked in a fight to the death with adversaries from another software project, or diligently stalking your prey on eBay or and hunting/gathering your Chinese food delivery.
All of this is a long way of getting to the original point of these post which was a demonstration that, despite our best attempts, natural selection still has plenty of opportunities:
