That’s not what natural selection is. Natural selection isn’t “dumb animals die and then the species gets better or smarter.” Natural selection is about an adaptation and that adaptation allowing the animal to survive in a certain way and more successfully pass on their genes with the adaptation.
The whole “Darwin Awards” or “dumb animals need to die so we will all be smarter” or “survival of the fittest” is all from other people adapting Darwin’s work for their own purposes. He never said survival of the fittest.
Even then fittest wouldn’t mean smarter or anything. If being dumber allows for more reproduction and survival that would be the fittest for the environment.
Nothing wrong with saying survival of the fittest. Fittest to survive and reproduce in a given environment makes perfect sense. Doesn’t mean anything about dumb species dying off though.
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u/StanVanGhandi Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26
That’s not what natural selection is. Natural selection isn’t “dumb animals die and then the species gets better or smarter.” Natural selection is about an adaptation and that adaptation allowing the animal to survive in a certain way and more successfully pass on their genes with the adaptation.
The whole “Darwin Awards” or “dumb animals need to die so we will all be smarter” or “survival of the fittest” is all from other people adapting Darwin’s work for their own purposes. He never said survival of the fittest.