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Originally Posted by Xell101
One of the things we humans seem most able to do is change the dynamics of the world around us. With the advent of agriculturalism a wider array of traits and skills became 'survivable'. This served as a swift kick in the pants to survival of the fittest. We changed the rules, you could now perpetuate your likeness throughout your collective of humans not by being the strongest, but by being able to sustain yourself in society. As society advancded the requirements for survival became more lax as we were more able to keep our fellow critters of civilization alive.
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You misunderstand what is meant by 'fittest'.
In evolutionary terms 'fit' does not mean athletic, strong, or high in stamina.
The fitness of a genotype is defined as its ability to survive (and raise children) in a given environment (which includes the phenotypes of all the other members of the population, and of all the other creatures living in the environment).