As far as I know "evolutionary advantage" means favouring the replication of a specific trait (or the genes underlying it) over competing traits. The "simplistic reasoning of an ignorant" is the reasoning of Charles Darwin and Richard Dawkins - that evolution acts on the individual in the first case, and genes (or gene clusters - or whatever produces traits on which evolution can get some traction) - in the latter. I don't follow everything you said but it looks like you're arguing for some sort of group selection? Maybe you could make your ideas a bit clearer. This in answer to post 1.
Post 2 - Darwin focused on the long term effects of the process - he wanted to explain how organisms developed over many generations. Not sure about the ideological bias, please explain further. Sorry I have to go now - to work in fact! Must fly :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
