I cannot see where the genetic evolution can be paralleled with
the development of human social behaviour.
I'm sure you read a lot of books I had no time for,
but it is still social darwinism, that sounds to me totally
irrational.
The human brain develops the possibilities of interconnectedness, but
these interconnectedness only happens through individual experience.
In that individual "breeding success" the social environment is a bigger
factor, that the parent's genetic makeup.
Besides there is an easily noticable developement in social
behaviour, people actually care more for the well-being of each other
in larger and larger areas, the fate not only of the local poor/sick
but of faraway places may aggrieve people even inspite of today's
insensitising media. This is the pointer, that the present system
that still allows the unbelievable poverty/wars/inhumanity is not in
syncron with social development and not in syncron with technical
development as it is not capable of using these for the survival of the
species.
Also I don't know in what way you are usin here Occam's razor.
Jay.Hanson:
> I go further than that Ed, capitalism fits OUR KIND OF ANIMAL.
>
> The key to solving our collective problem lies in understanding
> human behavior. The best "scientific" explanations of human behavior
> are to be found in the discipline of Evolutionary Psychology.
>
> EVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE
> Evolution is the complex of processes by which living organisms
> originated on earth and have been diversified and modified
> through sustained changes in form and function. The earliest
> known fossil organisms are single-celled forms resembling modern
> bacteria; they date from about 3.4 billion years ago. Many of the
> evolving organisms have become extinct (e.g., the dinosaurs), but
> some have developed into the present fauna and flora of the
> world. Extinction and diversification continue today.
>
> Charles Darwin's ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES (1859), is a landmark in
> human understanding of nature. Darwin noted that while offspring
> inherit a resemblance to their parents, they are not identical
> to them. He further noted that some of the differences between
> offspring and parents were not due solely to the environment but
> were themselves often inheritable.
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