[PEN-L:453] Re: Re: Re: sociobiology and right-wing politics

[boddhisatva <kbevans@xxxxxxxxx>]

		To whom....,




	Real Darwinism, by which I mean actual evolutionary science - a
forgotten art in these days of anthropomorpizing - indicates that the
"fittest" is simply that creature who, by *accident* of genetic
recombination, find itself able to reproduce successfully over a
significant period of time.  Some human behaviors have a long-term (in the
evolutionary time frame) significance (populatin expansion, predation,
habitat destruction/alteration) and some are not yet proved to have a
lasting effect *in evolutionary time* (pollution) Clearly the dinosaurs
were not killed all at once by a "comet" but went extinct in a relatively
short period of *geological time* - at least as far as we know.  Of course
it's possible that some dinosaur virus could have wiped them out in a
century or so, but it seems unlikely.  What seems more likely is that a
climate change, combined with other factors, killed the dinosaurs.  That
does indicate that the dinosaurs were not, from the vantage point of
evolutionary time, fit.



	We may judge human behaviors in an evolutionary scientific context
in so far as they are common to other creatures.  That's why I mentioned
the ones I did.  I think it's problematic to judge peculiar human traits
in terms of evolutionary biology.




	peace