oh. the other thing.
for "fun" i read origin of species, which i believe i earlier blogged about.
i mentioned, if i remember correctly, that darwin never wrote the words "survival of the fittest" up through the point where i was at.
well. i finished it, and NO WHERE in the WHOLE BOOK were those words strung together.
so unless it was in his later publishings, i'm wondering who the hell came up with that saying,
and why would it then be tied to darwin by every damn science teacher (that isnt from the bible belt or my old private school)?
darwin only continually writes about "struggle for existence" which i kinda like better than the ol' "survival of the fittest".
i know its just semantics, but survival connotates (IMHO) species at the bottom or middle of the plethora of speices that just barely keep alive by whatever they do to gain food, reproduce, etc.
but struggle rather is a more equal plane, where everyones on top, combating for one spot.
likewise, fittest is merely those who are best suited for acquiring food and ability to reproduce,
where existence kinda puts a damper on things... once your species is gone, its gone.
never coming back.

i guess those last to words really arent comparable, but struggle for existence shows the dire will and need to persist,
where survival of the fittest i guess only shows the means. maybe the two should be fused somehow.

but struggle for existence of the fittest doesn't quite have a ring to it.....

the way darwin fully put it was struggle for existence by descent of modification through natural selection.
there ya go.
from the mastah.