[lbo-talk] individual v. species selection

[Charles Brown]

Charles:
Then natural selection doesn't act on individuals , because individuals ,
well, die ! They are mortal. Individuals don't evolve in the Darwinian
sense. They may go through changes in their ontogeny (lifetime), but they
don't evolve into a new "species" or evolve genetically at all. Species
don't originate phenotypically in an individual during the course of the
individual's life. Species originate in two individuals, two generations, a
parent-offspring individuals pair , at least.

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"Death seems to be a harsh victory of the species over the particular
individual and to contradict their unity. But the particular individual is
only a particular species-being, and as such mortal."

 
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm

 

 

 

 
Karl Marx
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844

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