I find it difficult to imagine evolution of populations.
But evolution works for only populations,
isolated ones, over reaches of time too vast for me.
Doesn’t one theory of capitalism claim
self-interest benefits everyone in the long run?
Cutthroats and pickpockets, robber barons and
other
monopolists, embezzlers, pyramid schemers,
pimps and drug dealers, lying salesmen,
factory farmers who feed antibiotics to their hogs,
and companies that add toxins to baby formulas
have taught us that self-interest is often not enlightened.
What did Whitman mean in his Song of
Myself
“every atom belonging to me as good belongs to
you”?
Athough it is unrelated to Neo-Darwinism, I highly recommend J. B.
S. Haldane’s essay “On
Being the Right Size,” which describes relations between
the sizes and the biological systems of organisms.
The history of evolution, since it deals with our own origin
as well as the origin of all life on Earth, has been subject to
much prejudice, and has been confused by many poorly-justified
notions, but these scientists—Fisher, Haldane, Wright,
Dobzhansky, and others—studied evolution and genetics
mathematically and found that Mendel’s laws of inheritance
when applied to populations permitted the perpetuation of natural
variations and Darwin’s natural selection as a driver of
evolution.
Athough it is unrelated to Neo-Darwinism, I highly recommend J. B. S. Haldane’s essay “On Being the Right Size,” which describes relations between the sizes and the biological systems of organisms.
The history of evolution, since it deals with our own origin as well as the origin of all life on Earth, has been subject to much prejudice, and has been confused by many poorly-justified notions, but these scientists—Fisher, Haldane, Wright, Dobzhansky, and others—studied evolution and genetics mathematically and found that Mendel’s laws of inheritance when applied to populations permitted the perpetuation of natural variations and Darwin’s natural selection as a driver of evolution.
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