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To: Bosco
The term 'survival of the fittest' was coined by Herbert Spencer and was meant economically not biologically.
726 posted on 08/25/2006 10:03:23 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Biology doesn't really have the concept of "fittest." Some individuals have more offspring than others. There is no necessity of selection by early death, although that does happen.

If a eugenics program were designed by science it would seek to maximize diversity rather than seek purity. Any animal breeder knows that inbreeding results in the more frequent expression of recessive genes, some of which are detrimental.

The Nazis had no interest in science. They were sloganizers.


727 posted on 08/25/2006 10:11:12 AM PDT by js1138 (Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
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