> >Darwinism is NOT "Social Darwinism" (applied to human societies)! > > Darwin never said it was.
Right, but "social darwinists" pretend it was the same. > Darwinian evolution is quite simple. 'Fitness' is purely > a numbers game. The characteristics of parents who produce more than a > replacement number of children survive over the longer term vis-a-vis > parents who produce less than a replacement number of children. Darwinism is about the characteristics rather than the numbers (with the numbers alone, "survival of the fittest" would be a tautology). However, today these characteristics are pretty different from what is usually meant by (social or physical) fitness! Sometimes even opposite. Chris _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
