Strider  wrote:-


> > castrated pig proclaimed... 
> > CP:-
> > Evolution in humans is begining to stop - especially in MEDCs.  The
> > health service that we have is making us all live longer lives, and at
> > least long enough to have children.  This removes 'natural selection'
> > as we all have the same chance of passing on our genes
> > 
> > Evolution of a species only happens when only a few of the individuals
> > survive.

> S:-
> I agree and although I'm happy with my lifestyle I wonder if this is 
> good for the species as a whole. As written above, assuming the human 
> race exists long enough to effect it's own evolution wouldn't we 
> degenerate ourselves by making natural selection redundant?

JE:-
The above exchange illustrates the
most commonly held mythologies
that still exist within evolutionary 
theory depsite billions of dollars
invested in education.

1) Evolution in Humans has not stopped.
The main selective force in humans is
INTENSE intra (within) species competition 
to increase fitness mutualisation (the only
part of Hamilton's rule that is valid
but remains soundly ignored). The failure 
of the evolutionary
theory establishment to recognise that
fitness mutualisation entirely dominates 
human evolution is a sad reflection of 
their irrationality. Any health service
is an intense form of fitness mutualisation 
where tiny increases or decreases in 
mutualisation can greatly effect which _set_ 
of genes are passed on.

2) Evolution is not determined by rates
of survival it is only limited by them.
Evolution by natural selection can only
be determined by the total number of fertile
forms each parent reproduces into one population.
That is it. Confusing a limiting factor for a
controlling factor reverses testable causation 
within evolutionary theory turning it into 
biological nonsense.

3) "Good for the species" is classical 
group selection which failed over 50 years
ago to contest Darwinian selection at just
the one, fertile organism level. The so called
"new" forms of group selection are only multi
unit theories of group selection, i.e. they
attempt to combine the gene level, the organism
level, the fertile organism level and any groups
of such within the one theory. So far, all multi 
level theories remain _impossible_ to refute so 
they cannot meet just a minimal Popperian standard.
As one level refutes you are allowed to just jump 
to any  other level and then back again in "ad 
hoc" mayhem. The classical form of group
selection was a simple single unit theory so 
it was testable. It refuted in favour of the 
Darwinian single level of selection which remains 
the only valid _theory_ of evolution that we have 
that can meet a minimal Popperian standard.

The Neo Darwinian establishment must take
full responsibility for the perpetration of
the myths discussed because they are mostly based 
on the misuse of over simplified models. The
establishment's failure to identify the over 
riding importance of Darwinian fitness to 
any testable evolutionary theory remains 
endemic. The view that evolutionary theory 
need not be testable is unconscionable.

Regards,

John Edser
Independent Researcher

PO Box 266
Church Pt
NSW 2105
Australia

edser{at}tpg.com.au
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