It’s red in tooth and claw, a war of all against all, as each individual gene struggles to survive at the expense of others in a zero-sum competition for reproduction across generations, which coincidentally serves to naturalize the rule of the rich and powerful, and justify cruelty and indifference towards the weak, this week, on SRSLY WRONG.



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Links:

Stephen Jay Gould at OpenLibrary: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL27964A/Stephen_Jay_Gould

Kropotkin was No Crackpot by Stephen J Gould: https://www.marxists.org/subject/science/essays/kropotkin.htm

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Kropotkin: https://libcom.org/article/mutual-aid-factor-evolution-peter-kropotkin

Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s: https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/popular+eugenics

Elon Musk’s Idiocracy/Eugenics Tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1537975779379662852

Types of Biological Interactions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_interaction#Commensalism

Mutualism (Biology): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(biology)

Plants Show Alternative to Survival of the Fittest: https://www.rae.org/essay-links/plantfungus/

The Ecology of Mutualism by Douglas Boucher: https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/677/annurev.es.13.110182.pdf?sequence=1

The Philosophy of Social Ecology by Murray Bookchin: https://libcom.org/article/philosophy-social-ecology-essays-dialectical-naturalism

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1228/1228-h/1228-h.htm

The Stephen Jay Gould Archive (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBTQy191Tg2Z1RHCz_gupVw

War Against the Weak by Edwin Brown: ISBN-10 1568582587

Dawkins vs Gould by Kim Sterelny: ISBN-10: 1840467800

Entangled Life by Merlin Skeldrake: ISBN-10: 052551032X

Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould: ISBN-10: 9780393308181

The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould: ISBN-10: 0674006135

Murray Bookchin at The Anarchist Library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/murray-bookchin

Pyotr Kropotkin at The Anarchist Library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/petr-kropotkin