Thread: Future Warfare
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Old 2014-06-29, 18:32   Link #76
Roger Rambo
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Originally Posted by SaintessHeart View Post
I think that is an example for dysgenics, not Darwinism.
Dysgenic is just a word that humans came up with when they realized that Darwinian fitness didn't actually mean what they thought it meant.

A human society very well might consider yellow throated type males to be dysgenic, since it encourages the existence of more physically puny members of the species. Which is a bad thing for a society, since they could very well want to use physically strong males as warriors. But that has no bearing on the fact that it's a good survival trait from a Darwinian perspective.




Very often evolution has nothing to do with human sensibilities.
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