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...only is a new human species next to impossible, but technology has essentially eliminated natural selection as well. During prehistory, only the fittest individuals and species survived to reproduce. Now strong and weak alike have access to medicine, food and shelter of unprecedented quality and abundance. "Poor peasants in the Third World," says University of Michigan anthropologist Milford Wolpoff, "are better off than the Emperor of China was 1,000 years...
First-year teammate Carlin Wing had also found her niche in the No. 4 slot behind Elias, Herlihy, and Teaford. Her consistent and powerful play this season has marked her as one of the Crimson's fittest players. After the departure of Herlihy and Teaford, the team will begin to look to both Elias and Wing for leadership...
Whether teaching fellows embrace inflation or the "survival of the fittest" approach should be left to their and the professor's discretion. My concern is that this standard remains consistent across the entire course...
...book will blow away Covington's Christian piety, but it's a measure of McDonald's wisdom and subtle understanding of human ties that something altogether stranger happens. Evolution, as Mr. Darwin's Shooter demonstrates, is driven by forces more nuanced and mysterious than the crude survival of the fittest...
...progress is not necessarily for the best. Okay, but Todd is not exactly a Boy Scout. He was picked at birth, and along with the other trainees, grew up learning lessons such as "weakness is death" and "winning is everything." Todd's world is built on survival of the fittest--one completes training by managing to stay alive for 17 years. It is hard to sympathize with Todd against the genetically-enhanced Cain 607, since both spent their youths killing their classmates...