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From: Mike Hollinshead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>It is no more scientifically true than that the sun and planets revolve
>around the earth.
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>What is really funny is that Darwin purloined his principle of selection
>through competition from classical economics, from Malthus in fact. So you
>take the dog eat dog mythology of early capitalism and apply it to biology
>and then "prove" that hierarchical social systems are evolutionarily
>determined because evolutionary biology proves it to be so. Tosh. It is a
>tautology from beginning to end. (As is the Darwinian "Theory" of
>Evolution, but that is another story).
Hierarchy -- not hierarchical social systems -- has been observed in all
social primates. And in dogs, cats, lions, etc. I suppose on another
planet things might look different, but here on earth, primates are
genetically predisposed to hierarchy.
Hierarchy empirically true -- it's everywhere -- the birds do it, the bees
do it, the aardvarks do it, the Green Bay Packers do it, etc.
Jay
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>for those who would like the fine print of the argument see Richard
>Lewontin (a biologist who can actually think rather than merely
>regurgitate) Biology as Ideology. It was one of the Massey Lectures and
>can be sourced at the the CBC's website under the program Ideas.
>
>Mike H
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>>From: Eva Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>>>> Why do they believe this? First, explicit evolutionary thinking can
>>>> sometimes eliminate certain kinds of errors in thinking about behavior
>>>> (Symons, 1987).
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>>>Evolutionary theory is only intended to explain how living organisms
>>evolve.
>>>Applying it to any other field of inquiry puts you on VERY shaky ground.
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>>It's presently being used to predict primate (human) behavior.
>>Although it's politically incorrect, it's scientifically true.
>>
>>Jay
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