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Have you lately used Darwin’s name in Vain? It is survival of the Gene stupid, not your own life…
Posted by: adonis49 on: July 27, 2013
Have you lately used Darwin’s name in Vain?
It is survival of the Gene stupid, not your own life…
There are growing number of research pointing to the qualitative altering of genes as people change their daily behaviors. Sort of nurturing changes the default genes of acquired habits and customs.
These results bring to the forefront deductive ideas:
1. Genes are but structured system of acquired customs and habits that we use in our daily transactions and behaviors, acquired over generations…
2. If a group of people assemble and get organized to change their habits and customs, this gathering of people will basically tend to alter their genes, creating a new species of mankind
3. The species of mankind that is resuming the current consumption civilization, which defies the sustainability of earth and nature, is ultimately doomed, and replaced by
4. The new breed who takes the attitude of never challenging nature, of consuming what nature is able to produce, of maintaining a healthy environment… this new species of mankind could survive…
These ideas and deductions were inspired by this short post in Reine Organized Chaos.
Reine Azzi posted this July 24, 2013:
“When you ask some people why they act in ‘selfish’ ways, why they are out to fulfill their own self-interest, many might attribute it to a ‘survival of the fittest’ strategy.
I’ve been reading a book on evolutionary biology, an extension of Darwin’s theories, and the biggest insight so far is the following:
– It isn’t about the survival of the fittest individual but survival of the fittest GENE.
What does this imply?
That maybe a few selfless acts on the individual level might be just what you need for that particular gene to survive!
Selfless animals that act upon the gene causing them to scream out might suffer on an individual level when a predator finds them, but that gene called out a warning to other animals in the vicinity, inevitably creating a proliferation of that particular gene through saving all those lives.
We, the human species should start wondering whether the way we’ve misunderstood ‘survival of the fittest’ might be causing us to act in contrast to actual evolutionary biology.
And whether we’re slowly decreasing the number of genes that can allow us to actually survive”.
Note 1: Low and high altitude mankind species https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/two-species-of-mankind-sorted-out-not-long-ago/
Note2: Reine Azzi is an instructor who teaches at a Lebanese university! Best way to remain passionately challenged! She has the licensee, curator, and host of TEDxLAU which adds so much excitement to my life! View all posts by Reine Azzi →
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