From: Omixochitl2002@yahoo.com   
      
   Raist  wrote in news:UMOob.77443$e01.257795@attbi_s02:   
      
   > Omixochitl wrote:   
   >> mvillanu@hotmail.com (mvillanu) wrote in   
   >> news:dc4a405f.0310311828.172ef554@posting.google.com:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>u01mzb@abdn.ac.uk (FixinDixon) wrote in message   
   >>>news:<51f64020.0310310215.73958b5c@posting.google.com>...   
   >>>   
   >>>[snip]   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>FixinDixon   
   >>>   
   >>>The USA of course.  You don't become #1 by being nice.   
   >>>   
   >>>What did Germany do to become #1 50 years ago?   
   >>>What did the French do to become #1 150 years ago?   
   >>>What about the British before that?   
   >>>How about Spain before that?   
   >>>Italy?   
   >>>How about the Arabs?   
   >>>And the Mongols?   
   >>>And China?   
   >>>   
   >>>The list can go on and on for 3000 years, and probably even before   
   >>>that but we weren't writing things down yet.   
   >>>   
   >>>It's survival of the fittest.  Do what you can to secure your   
   >>>survival, even if it means colonizing and oppressing other people.   
   >>>Hell even if it means genocide.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Except that survival of the fittest has zilch to do with groups.   
   >> More like every gene for itself.  ;)   
   >   
   > Seriously, I would think that at a genetic and evolutionary level,   
   > survival of your family and immediate group (tribe) would be just as   
   > important as personal survival. Otherwise your genes will weaken and   
   > be diluted.   
      
   Nope.  To a gene inside you, the survival and reproductive prospects of   
   someone who shares 50% of your genes (your son, daughter, brother,   
   sister, etc.) is half as important as the survival and reproductive   
   prospects of someone who has 100% of your genes (you).  After all, the   
   genes only has a 50% chance of being inside that someone as well as   
   inside you.   
      
   Likewise, to that gene, the survival and reproductive prospects of   
   someone who shares 25% of your genes (your grandson, granddaughter,   
   niece, nephew, etc.) is half as important as the survival and   
   reproductive prospects of someone who shares 50% of your genes and a   
   quarter as important as the survival and reproductive prospects of   
   someone who has 100% of your genes.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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