I could never find a place where Darwin talked about "survival of the fittest" -- so I am delighted to know that my myopia (as bad as it is) is not the problem. I suspect we got "survival of the fittest" out of the witch's brew of "social Darwinism"
Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20845 Phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Don Ferretti Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 5:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Survival of the Cooperative I can give you a lot of detail to back this up but I will not take up air time here to do that. I just wanted to say that I know for a fact that the "survival of the fittest" mantra was not even spoken by Darwin. But, his whole body of work seems to have been boiled down to that idea. I have my theory as to why that is. But, if you really look at all of that work, the role of cooperation, adaptation and flexibility plays a much more important role. We did not make it this far through competition, but through pervasive cooperation. http://placer.networkofcare.org www.placer.ca.gov/cfc First 5 - Placer CFC Don Ferretti - Director 530.886.1824 530.886.1810 (fax) * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
