Richard Dawkins - Nice Guys Finish First - An Important Lesson For Our Species - PART 1 of 5

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[Bozantium]

I wish that Dawkins, and the rest of us, wouldn't have to explain to people the phrase 'survival of the fittest.'

[Thor22289]

He's cute

[rsgirl10]

You know t he saying "Nice guys finish last"? I think the origin was a sexual thing, if anyone gets what I mean.

[thegarbeen]

@DoSoLittle oh, there you go then, im going to forget any of the in depth research carried out by renound scientists that I have come across. You my freind obviously have the answer.

[ToadsMGodes]

They should have shown a couple of chimps fighting with nunchucks.

[Pomme843]

@DoSoLittle You have misunderstood the concept of circular reasoning. You could just as well say:

"Who gets the highest grades? Answer, the smartest students.

Who are the smartest students? Answer, the ones who get the highest grades.", and call that circular. Nobody is arguing that those survive, do so BECAUSE they are the fittest, and that these are the fittest BECAUSE they survive. Circular reasoning must (or should) imply a circular CAUSAL chain. Only then do we have circular reasoning.

[Bozantium]

@DoSoLittle Survival of the fittest isn't circular in any sense of the term. It's simply what environmental/genetic conditions suit a certain species for life at any given time.

[bloodred345]

@DoSoLittle that is not circular reasoning, and you are no scientist if you can't see why.

[DoSoLittle]

@Bozantium

Survival of the fittest is a fallacy. It's circular reasoning.

Who survives?

Answer, the fittest.

Who is the fittest?

Answer, whoever survives.

In my experience, it is neither the strongest nor the weakest who survive. Rather it is the luckiest who survive.

[TheeVoiceOfReason]

Hands down my favorite scientist. His knack for presenting Biology with such prose and lucidity has me going to school this fall for something in Biology. I have The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype, Unweaving The Rainbow, and The Greatest Show on Earth. I can't wait to buy The Blind Watchmaker on payday. His religious views aside, Dawkins is head and shoulders above a lot of scientists. Long live Dawkins!