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There is a fundamental difference. Natural Selection works on an individual basis, everyone tries to maximize the amount of his or her DNA in the world. In euge
by patall 10y ago
There is a fundamental difference. Natural Selection works on an individual basis, everyone tries to maximize the amount of his or her DNA in the world. In eugenics (and to a lesser degree in social selection) someone else (or the group) decides that his or her DNA should not be inheritet. Basically capitalism vs. communism.
- TheOtherHobbes 10y agoHumans are only "fundamentally different" in that we have alpha castes as well as alpha individuals. It's not unusual for animal alphas to monopolise/deny mating opportunities. Eugenics is the same evolutionary invention taken up a level. Ironically, this means proponents are acting just like animals.
- brute 10y agoIn sexual selection there is also someone else (i.e. the group of females in a peacock population) that decide whose DNA should not be inherited. And sexual selection is considered a part of natural selection. So your argument does not hold. Wikipedia: Sexual selection is a mode of natural selection where members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_selection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_selection I could even argue the same thing for natural selection itself. When a predator kills an animal, he decides that the DNA of that animal should not be spread further in the future.