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John Mayer, Featuring the Dancing Pandas: "Still Feel Like Your Man"

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))4/22/2017 7:42:17 am PDT

re: #208 Anymouse

Even those in that thread trying to argue in favour of evolution by natural selection get it wrong, such as the definition of “fittest.”

Aside from “fittest” referring to being “fittest for the environment, not alpha male,” that actually is non-random natural selection in the example.

Bulls running around sticking their legs in gopher holes and breaking their necks is a natural selection pressure for bulls that don’t do that. Bulls that do not break their own necks are more fit than those who do.

A lot of evolution and behaviorism is rather counter-intuitive. For example, there are studies that describe how smart beta males take advantage of alphas being distracted by fighting and posturing to mate with females behind their backs…