Especially with the rise of “ghost postings” so quantity over quality is greater than ever these days
2 points
Evolution is one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented processes in nature.
Here’s some bullet points:
- Humans haven’t evolved “higher” or “more” than earthworms, or roaches, or wheat, or yeast. (All these organisms have evolved for the same amount of time, with a similar number of mutations, but in different environments.)
- Intelligence isn’t the end goal, or indeed a goal at all, of evolution. (Evolution is a process which has no direction, and no goal.)
- Humans aren’t the most successful organism on earth by literally any biological metric. (And “evolutionary success” is a meaningless metric that is only used by humans.)
- “Survival of the fittest” has nothing to do with strength. (It doesn’t mean fitness as in fitness center, but fitness as in “can I fit in this ecological niche?”)
- Pretty much every organism we’ve studied lives in a symbiotic relationship with others. (Humans, from a purely biological standpoint, live in a symbiotic relationship with their gut microbiome, wheat, rice, corn, …, livestock, horses, cats, dogs, honey bees… A symbiosis from a purely biological standpoint means: both species have a better chance to reproduce and spread due to their relationship)