Survival of the Cooperative

[Harrison Owen]

I could never find a place where Darwin talked about "survival of the
fittest" -- so I am delighted to know that my myopia (as bad as it is) is
not the problem. I suspect we got "survival of the fittest" out of the
witch's brew of "social Darwinism"

Harrison

Harrison Owen
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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Don
Ferretti
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 5:34 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Survival of the Cooperative

I can give you a lot of detail to back this up but I will not take up
air time here to do that. I just wanted to say that I know for a fact
that the "survival of the fittest" mantra was not even spoken by Darwin.
But, his whole body of work seems to have been boiled down to that idea.
I have my theory as to why that is. But, if you really look at all of
that work, the role of cooperation, adaptation and flexibility  plays a
much more important role. We did not make it this far through
competition, but through pervasive cooperation.

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