[PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] Mad SCO Disease

[Russ Johnson]

Russell Senior wrote:

>Well, they won't (at least not as soon) because they are controlling
>their population growth in another way.  But isn't your model of
>"survival of the fittest" predicated on resource scarcity becoming
>particularly acute and such a sorting out becoming necessary?
>  
>
Not entirely.  We (humankind) has started "saving" lives that would have 
never survived without a lot of intervention. Then, arguably, those that 
wouldn't have been around to procreate, do procreate, and we end up with 
genes in the pool that would have died out... possibly due to 
non-viability.

That's natural selection/survival of the fittest in a nutshell, and it 
has nothing to do with resources.

Russ