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Scott, your knowledge and posts are much appreciated by me. Even though I'm old I still like to learn. We seem to have lots of very smart, well educated people on this list and I wonder if there is any correlation with Parkinson's. Ray, fellow Arizonan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott E. Antes" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 6:33 PM Subject: Re: Scientific Method etc > Apologies if someone has already answered this. "Survival of the > fittest," in > the evolutionary sense, refers to one thing only, and that is the relative > success of an organism to pass on its genes to future generations. In > other > words, if you're an organism that produces offspring who produce offspring > who > produce offspring, etc., etc., you're a fit organism. Some organisms are > much > more fit than others. Bacteria, for example, are about the fittest > organisms > on the planet, having passed on their genetic material for some 3.8 > billion > years. Most insects also are very fit. When confronted with climate and > habitat change, small mammals proved to be more fit than gigantic > dinosaurs, > and so on. Scott Antes > >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Joe Ryan" <[log in to unmask]> >>To: <[log in to unmask]> >>Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:29 PM >>Subject: Scientific Method etc >> >> >>> Hi Mary Ann >>> >>> >>> >>> I don't know what to think about the term "survival of the fittest". My >>> first impression was like yours, that it had to do with strength, but >>> then >>> what about the survival of the swiftest or smartest or smallest or >>> hundreds of other 'survival mechanisms"? Does it mean those who fit >>> their >>> particular environment the best survive the best? > > Scott E. Antes > Department of Anthropology > Northern Arizona University > Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5200 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn