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Originally Posted by roachboy
so you expect me to take you seriously after you agree with ustwo that there is some unproblematic analogy between human social groups and those of insects?
and this after the post directly above you, which you obviously did not read.
you must be dreaming.
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My thoughts exactly. I don't think Darwin would have made such a leap, and he was a pioneer. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong. At any rate, contemporary evolutionary theorists would scoff at such a thought. Then again, evolutionary theory isn't that interesting to the general reader. Most have only an elementary concept of Darwinism--hence the constant misquoting of "survival of the fittest"--let alone any understanding of those who have followed him. Though I will add that I've seen some disturbing evidence of social Darwinism on this board, though it does not seem overt in its use.)
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