okay, having taken some time to actually sit down and read through Cronins article:
In our society of caring for the weak and raising those who would otherwise not survive. In our society where we heal the wounds caused by the self or out of sheer stupidity. In such a society in which the survival is no longer just of the fitest. Can we really look to Darwinism and Evolution to explain social tendancies?
We as a species (at least in "Developed" countries) have removed ourselves quite far from natural selection, and if we're going to bring in models of Evolution to explain behavior, we really need to realize that we're probably working with a whole different set of rules. Darwin's Evolution is very reliant upon the survival of the fittest. When we heal everyone, and everyone continues to breed, everyone survives, not just the fittest. And the most alarming thing is that those who are at the lowest levels of society are more likely to breed earlier, and often.
Darwinian models just don't fit for the kind of evolution that our species has developed. Its a bad argument to be made before bringing in gender specific evolution. That argument really should just be thrown out.
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Date: 2007-01-08 07:43 am (UTC)In our society of caring for the weak and raising those who would otherwise not survive. In our society where we heal the wounds caused by the self or out of sheer stupidity. In such a society in which the survival is no longer just of the fitest. Can we really look to Darwinism and Evolution to explain social tendancies?
We as a species (at least in "Developed" countries) have removed ourselves quite far from natural selection, and if we're going to bring in models of Evolution to explain behavior, we really need to realize that we're probably working with a whole different set of rules. Darwin's Evolution is very reliant upon the survival of the fittest. When we heal everyone, and everyone continues to breed, everyone survives, not just the fittest. And the most alarming thing is that those who are at the lowest levels of society are more likely to breed earlier, and often.
Darwinian models just don't fit for the kind of evolution that our species has developed. Its a bad argument to be made before bringing in gender specific evolution. That argument really should just be thrown out.