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| (...) We did, but it didn't necessarily help--the Lysenko variant of Lamarckian genetics was eagerly taken up by Stalin and his totalitarian regime--"New Socialist Man" ring any bells? It was something that appealed to him because it implied that (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Re: Why do we know all of this? (was Re: evolution)
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| (...) I disagree with the term "Survival of the Fittest," shouldn't it be something more like "Reproduction of the Fittest(1)?" Darwin and some of his contemporaries did create the theory of evolution through natural selection, one of the first (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Re: Why do we know all of this? (was Re: evolution)
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| (...) Well, the fittest *individuals* don't survive forever, obviously. What really survives, past one lifetime, are the fittest *genotypes*. -- John J. Ladasky Jr., Ph.D. Department of Structural Biology Stanford University Medical Center Stanford, (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Re: Why do we know all of this? (was Re: evolution)
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| (...) And, I must jump in, cause, well, I do, but if I remember my History of Anthropology course (if only I could find my notes!) it was actually Herbert Spencer (a wild and wacky social darwinist) coined that term. (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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