EXISTENTIALISM
/////////////For instance, feeling kinship with our relatives is undoubtedly an adaptive trait that was selected for in our evolutionary past, but it can also be turned into tribalism that leads to wars and conflicts that are clearly non-adaptive and unhealthy.
How are conflicts and wars non-adaptive and unhealthy, as far as natural selection is concerned? In animals, conflicts over mating rights is clearly adaptive and healthy for the species. Territorial disputes are also adaptive and healthy for the species.
Maybe in humans, one could argue, wars kill so indiscriminately that it has the chance to kill off highly "fit" individuals, but the "fittest" are the ones who survive the battle.
Posted by: wank | March 4, 2009 9:02 AM
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