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is a form of evolution that is favorable to the weak and not the strong.

But how can this be corroborated with Nietzsche's (antiDarwinist) observation that 'natural selection' is favourable to the weak and not to the strong' To think the Return fully is to admit nothing more than an alternation between energy and exhaustion. (Klossowski 'vicious' 124)

is a weakening process, not an empowering one. Species do not grow more perfect, rather they grow weaker. The weak, being more numerous and more clever, continually dominate the strong (who become so strong that they abandoned mind as unnecessary).

Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and againthe reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. . . . To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it. Friedrich Nietzsche

is the principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

is the process that has brought all living things to be the way they are, is best seen at the gene level, is best seen as a process of differential survival among genes, and therefore living organisms and their bodies are best seen as machines programmed by the genes to propagate those very same genes.

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine. What it means is that natural selection, Darwinian natural selection, which is the process that has brought all living things to be the way they are, is best seen at the gene level, is best seen as a process of differential survival among genes, and therefore living organisms and their bodies are best seen as machines programmed by the genes to propagate those very same genes. In that sense we are gene machines. But it is not intended to be at all a demeaning or belittling statement.

is a phenomenon that does not bode well for monks, nerds, women with ticking clocks, reclusive scholars, a significant percentage of interior decorators, and other mild-mannered gentlefolk.

The reproductive screening process by which the gods determine whose genes will represent the future of the species, based solely on a proclivity for fruitful sex; a phenomenon that does not bode well for monks, nerds, women with ticking clocks, reclusive scholars, a significant percentage of interior decorators, and other mild-mannered gentlefolk. proof positive that providence favors the lusty over the learned, and that human evolution will eventually return us to our rowdy paleolithic roots.

is proof positive that providence favors the lusty over the learned, and that human evolution will eventually return us to our rowdy paleolithic roots.

is the reproductive screening process by which the gods determine whose genes will represent the future of the species, based solely on a proclivity for fruitful sex.

 explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance or how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.

Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.

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