Tiger80 Posted April 2, 2015 Posted April 2, 2015 evolution is about individuals first. As i said, please take your time to actually understand what evolution really is and what genes really are (in their capacity as drivers of evolution). Genes care only about propagating themselves- not their cousin genes or competing genes. Genes are fundamentally about the individual- when a baby is formed, genes from both parents compete with each other to propagate itself. If that is not instrinsically individualistic, what is ? Genes are not geared to favour its subclade (clan) over itself. I don't know what evolution you have read but reproductive success is the ultimate goal of of all living organisms.If you are not reproducing then you are a dying breed If any value is deeply evolutionarily familiar, it is reproductive success. If any value is truly unnatural, if there is one thing that humans (and all other species in nature) are decisively not designed for, it is voluntary childlessness. All living organisms in nature, including humans, are evolutionarily designed to reproduce. Reproductive success is the ultimate end of all biological existence. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/07/smart-women-not-having-kids As for those social scientists, i got only one thing to say: Hitler. Francis Ferdinand. Napoleon. Mt.Vesuvius. The black death. If human society has proved one thing, it is that punching data into a modeling system and predicting how/what human society will be like in spans of 75-100 or more years,is total speculative nonsense. There is one critical difference between humanity and rest of the animal kingdom: we are the only species who's meme (culture & social interactions) plays a bigger role in the nature of our survival as a species than the genes. It is purely mathematics that if a country has below replacement level birth rate then it is dying economic policies are framed after doing calculation that how many young people a country will have in future .If a country have severly low birth rate then young immigrants are only solution
Muloghonto Posted April 2, 2015 Posted April 2, 2015 I don't know what evolution you have read but reproductive success is the ultimate goal of of all living organisms.If you are not reproducing then you are a dying breed Reproductive success is not about who reproduces more. Reproductive success is about increasing the percentage of propagation while not overburdening the host (in our case, thats earth as we are not a parasitic species). It is purely mathematics that if a country has below replacement level birth rate then it is dying economic policies are framed after doing calculation that how many young people a country will have in future .If a country have severly low birth rate then young immigrants are only solution not really, but that is a different argument.
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