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Can you explain the theory of evolution by natural selection as presented by Darwin?

How can Darwin's theory of natural selection be used to explain the dominance of the Caucasian?

  • How can Darwin's theory of natural selection be used to explain the dominance of the Caucasian race over minorities (African American, Native American, etc.) in the last few centuries?

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    Natural selection means that an individual who is able to survive and reproduce will pass it's genes on to the next generation, while one that dosn't have the traits that lead to survival and mating will not reproduce, and their genes will not be passed on. It is about the predominance of certain genes in a population through time. This has NOTHING to do with interactions between societies or races. Many people in the 19th and 20th centuries have misinterpreted natural selection to support racist ideologies. "Social Darwinism" is just another name for racism, and race relations have nothing to do with evolution. The relationships between different "races" of people are the result of human social interaction, colonialism, geography, technology developing in certain places, exploitation, and social injustice.

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caucasians have an evil gene apparently. seriously, dude. you aren't talking about science. you are talking culture and that isn't biological. your questions can't be answered.

Kanien:kaha'ka-[]-[]-^-[]-[]

Short answer: It can't. That would be called racist biological determinism which is a big no-no in the 21st century.

Captain Obvious

It can't. There are far more people in Africa (and America) than there was a few centuries ago. I am guessing their population grew faster than causcasion's.

jim z

Why didn't you include Asians? Maybe because you mow our lawns for a living?

Shiv

darwin has nothing to do with it. violence explains the dominance of europeans. if you're proud of the way white people wreaked terror all across the globe to build empires, then you're no better than the evil pigs who burned villages full of women and children here in america and everywhere else in the world. some of us have learned better since those days. what's taking you so long to catch up?

bad tim

It can. Remember president Coolidge had forbidden the entrance of non-Aryans into new established USA. And at the result of natural selection Caucasian children have the more possiblity to survive at the birth, because this race is the stronger one.

Nima

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