Originally posted by bethere
Agree Dissagree Any Thoughts ???
yes...if someone is going to say 'survival of the fittest' one more time I am going to report them to the ignorance police
Originally posted by bethere
Agree Dissagree Any Thoughts ???
Originally posted by bethere
which one is correct - eng is my second language.
Survival of the athletic.
Originally posted by spuriousmonkey
yes...if someone is going to say 'survival of the fittest' one more time I am going to report them to the ignorance police
Originally posted by Faz
It's in the genes, and the chemical signals the DNA and RNA receive to 'unlock' the evolutionary process towards a new species!!!
Originally posted by Dudeyhed
what i mean is, how does DNA actually change?
Originally posted by Faz
At last someone on this forum that SEES the light. Survival of the fittest(sorry spuriousmonkey) isn't involved in the spontaneous evolution of genes and therefore cells and therefore the creation of new species...at all!!!
If that were the case my friends...we humans (Homo Sapiens) would have been replaced by the more capable species a long time ago! remember...the Neanderthals were far more capable to adapting to their environment than the Cro Magnons!
Most insects species and even tiny bacterium are by far much more adapted 'survival of their fittest' then humans. We should all be a race of super-humans by now if 'survival of the fittest' really had anything to do with evolution of species. It's in the genes, and the chemical signals the DNA and RNA receive to 'unlock' the evolutionary process towards a new species!!!
Originally posted by MFrobotH43D
I think what spuriousmonkey means is that the word "fittest" tends to imply "best" in some objective sense. When what is happening in the real world is just adaptation to a specific set of variables.
An individual or group can be said to be fittest for a particular environment, but not fittest in some grander way.
Many people tend to see evolution as a series of steps toward some goal ( a goal such as human beings). We all have that series of images in our heads: monkeys, to ape men, to modern man carrying his spear. And we like to beable to think linearly like that. But actually Homo sapiens are not the "fittest" beings on the planet. "Fittestness" depends on the situation.
From a heat vent worm's point of view, humans are fragile and weak, not even able to withstand the comfortable environment surrounding the volcanic cracks in the ocean's floor.