Malcom writes:

>Hitler has understood that natural selection, generally, acts on the
>individual. However he then offers a "good of the species"
argument for not
>interfering with evolutionary processes. Usually we associate a belief in
>group selection with political liberals, so this is a bit incongruous.

If that's the case, and I have no reason to dispute your analysis, there must
have been an enormous wave of optimism and progressive thought that must have
swept over the world 540-570 mya, just prior to the "Cambrian
Explosion", when
individual, free-living cells -- who up to that time had fervently advocated a
"live free or die" stance -- first adopted the radical, if not outrightly
socialist political position of task-partitioned multicellularity as a way to
achieve the liberal uptopian goal of cooperative complexity.

Wirt Atmar
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