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To: cornelis
The other view suggests that whatever happens is fitness.

By George, I think he's getting it.

There is a problem with this view. Can we say that "unfitness" is "unnatural?" Not really.

The persistence of unfitness certainly is unnatural. Unfitness has a tendency to be selected out of the gene pool in the most final way. That is essentially the definition of unfitness and fitness. Fitness persists, unfitness doesn't. A changing environment (which can include the living competition both in the same species and other species) alters what is fit.

278 posted on 11/30/2005 9:47:50 AM PST by Thatcherite (F--ked in the afterlife, bullying feminized androgenous automaton euro-weenie blackguard)
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"Unfitness has a tendency to be selected out of the gene pool in the most final way."

Except where the natural processes are being screwed around with. As an example, I give you modern humans through the use of modern medicine.


281 posted on 11/30/2005 9:54:45 AM PST by furball4paws (One of the last Evil Geniuses, or the first of their return.)
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