episode 260: Survival of the "Fittest"
It’s red in tooth and claw, a war of all against all, as each individual gene struggles to survive at the expense of others in a zero-sum competition for reproduction across generations, which coincidentally serves to naturalize the rule of the rich and powerful, and justify cruelty and indifference towards the weak, this week, on SRSLY WRONG.
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Links:
Stephen Jay Gould at OpenLibrary: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL27964A/Stephen_Jay_Gould
Kropotkin was No Crackpot by Stephen J Gould: https://www.marxists.org/subject/science/essays/kropotkin.htm
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Kropotkin: https://libcom.org/article/mutual-aid-factor-evolution-peter-kropotkin
Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s: https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/popular+eugenics
Elon Musk’s Idiocracy/Eugenics Tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1537975779379662852
Types of Biological Interactions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_interaction#Commensalism
Mutualism (Biology): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(biology)
Plants Show Alternative to Survival of the Fittest: https://www.rae.org/essay-links/plantfungus/
The Ecology of Mutualism by Douglas Boucher: https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/677/annurev.es.13.110182.pdf?sequence=1
The Philosophy of Social Ecology by Murray Bookchin: https://libcom.org/article/philosophy-social-ecology-essays-dialectical-naturalism
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1228/1228-h/1228-h.htm
The Stephen Jay Gould Archive (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBTQy191Tg2Z1RHCz_gupVw
War Against the Weak by Edwin Brown: ISBN-10 1568582587
Dawkins vs Gould by Kim Sterelny: ISBN-10: 1840467800
Entangled Life by Merlin Skeldrake: ISBN-10: 052551032X
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould: ISBN-10: 9780393308181
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould: ISBN-10: 0674006135
Murray Bookchin at The Anarchist Library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/murray-bookchin
Pyotr Kropotkin at The Anarchist Library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/petr-kropotkin