Alberto said: > If "Biological Law" is the survival of the more fit, then we > don't obey this Law. Sometimes, what happens is the survival of > the _less_ fit.
In particular situations that's always been the case: sometimes the "fitter" get unlucky and sometimes the "less fit" get lucky. It's all a matter of probabilities. But more importantly, it's really better to talk about "more adapted" and "less adapted". What's happening is that human society is part of the environment against which genes are selected, and recently that particular part of the environment has changed in ways which change what it means to be well or poorly adapted. There's no absolute, environment-independent set of characteristics that define "fitness", and this is more obvious when using the language of adaptation. Rich _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
