If "only the best survived" there would be very few in the next generations. The ones who have been fit to survive to this point will continue to survive until something tilts the odds against them. Sloppy thinking handed down from the 19th C. continues to dog the debate.
Survival of the fittest is best understood as a probabilistic statement. The fittest are more likely to survive. Gawdzilla Sama is quite correct. If only the fittest survived, there would be very few in the next generation.
I've always thought of the Darwin Awards as a "well done, that man! for removing a bad patch of genes from the available strings."
Not without some sort of quantification on that. Of 10 critters, if only the top 9 fittest survive, the next generation will be quite fine.
I think it includes "the most creative" method by which the person dispatched themselves I tried to interest our local politician to apply to those giving out the awards to hold a awards convention here in Darwin She thinks they are tacky Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Interesting but impossible All Darwin Awards are awarded posthumously However I understand that honorable mentions are awarded Would it be ghoulish to ask the honorable mentions to re-enact the event? Perhaps a re going over would clinch the deal for the real thing? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Ah good old King Canute A King standing against the tide A King well and truly before his time Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
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Correct. Power has nothing to do with it. Reproductive fitness does. Again, power has nothing to do with it. Reproductive fitness does. From a purely evolutionary standpoint, Trump is quite successful because he's had five children (that we know about.) Again, you are talking about two different things. Take two people - a serial rapist who ends up fathering two children and a priest who has spent his life celibate and working with the poor. The priest is certainly the better person. The rapist will be the "fittest" in terms of evolution because he will pass on his genes.
Exactly. Such a generalization should not have been made in the first place. It does not refute the point it was intended to refute.