December 01, 2004
Did somebody say Mutual Aid?
Not that I've been haranguing all my friends with the current culture's fundamental misunderstanding of the process of natural selection or anything.
Clearing up misunderstanding #1:
In this big wide world, competition does not seem so prevalent between members of the same base unit of selection (gene, species, community) as it is between those members and 'capital N' Nature.
Clearing up misunderstanding #2:
The evidence seems to favor the gene (as defined by Dawkins and others) as the base unit of selection.
Posted by Keeper of the Blog at December 1, 2004 05:29 PM | TrackBackComments