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Is Darwinism now extinct ?
I know that Darwinism has come under educated scrutiny but not really destroyed as such. Do you think this account does that? In Yellowstone park the elegant, graceful and beautiful to gaze on Elk, had over thousands maybe millions of years outwitted and out run it`s main predator, the prehistoric wolf, and lived in relative peace. Man the meddler had worked out that the loss of the beaver, the dams, reservoirs fish etc was all down to the extinction of the wolf., and so like a good boy scout he introduced a new breed of wolf which began, as it does, to eat new born elk and the old and the disabled alive and as a pack.The fact that the beaver, the dams and the fish etc all re emerged wa seen as justification for killing the elk. The question that is bothering me is that man effectively put the evolutionary clock back and the elk has to start all over again.ok we have the beaver, the ponds,the fish and so on.This is not natural selection (Darwin). will there be a price that we will have to pay for this unnatural act? ,
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- choko_canyonLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
No, evolution continues apace despite our interference, but certainly that interference has consequences. Are the consequences necessarily negative? That's for posterity to decide, if we survive what we're doing to the planetary ecology.
- ?Lv 77 years ago
Natural selection continues at all sorts of levels with or without Man's intervention. The next time you get a dose of influenza it will be a variety of the virus that has evolved just a little from the previous one to which millions of people will have acquired an immunity.
There have always been large and catastrophic interventions in the slow evolution of species, there was clearly one when the dinosaurs were wiped out and there have been others when volcanic activity has caused climate change. One of Darwin's earliest observations was of the difference between the flora and fauna either side of the Andes between Argentina and Chile, and again when he moved from the foothills of the Andes to the Argentine pampas. It was these observations and the experience of being in the middle of an earthquake caused by the shifting tectonic plates that made him appreciate the environmental factors that led to evolution. In North America there is good evidence that the local giant species got smaller when Man arrived putting pressure on them and one their prey, a movement in the opposite direction can be found in many human populations today which are getting larger and taller with better diets.
You should not necessarily consider Man as being outside Nature. Looked at from a wider perspective, i.e. that of the Intergalactic Traveller, man is just as much a part of the evolutionary story as the other species, and it is doubtful if we are the only ones who have hunted our own prey to extinction.
- DLv 47 years ago
Darwin had a predisposition toward selective natural selection. If you were white, western European you were at the top of the food chain. All else were inferior. He was followed by the likes of Hitler, Mao and Stalin. All that could be should be neutered and/or euthanized. He fell out of favor when his position changed after the death of his daughter and back tracked his position. No more speaking engagements and no more papers of his were published. His original ideas regrettably didn't and are kept by to many people today. But there is a renewed interest in the Neo-Nazi movement too. ???
- ?Lv 47 years ago
The Theory of Evolution will not be overturned, if for no other reason than that it has been the an integral component of scientific development for so long. There are many un-provable elements of the theory which are overlooked and/or sidestepped because other elements of the theory are accurate.
I have no problem with the theory of evolution, but am annoyed when people speak condescendingly of other belief structures, thinking Darwinism is absolute truth; it's pretty hypocritical.
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- 7 years ago
(1) Ah, but it IS natural selection. Philosophically, nothing that occurs in the universe is unnatural.
(2) A question about biological evolution is probably better asked in Biology than Philosophy.
- CarnationLv 77 years ago
Darwin was aware of what you might call unnatural or man-made selection. [He would not have said human-made.] He studied how dogs, etc have been bred for certain traits.
- ?Lv 57 years ago
Humans are part of nature, so it is part of natural selection. Whether it is other animals or us, who are an animal is all part of nature.