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Survival of the Fittest

Settle Down, It'll All Be Clear

Denise M. Wilbanks | Posted 06.18.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Reptilian Brain, Survival of the Fittest, Stress Response, Meditation Practice, Mindfulness Practice, Healthy Living News
Denise M. Wilbanks

We are not at the mercy of extraneous factors. We can empower ourselves with the tools for a healthy way of living. The old Darwinian adage "survival of the fittest" comes to mind. However, who are the fittest in a war whereby our perception is under attack by our very own lizard brain?

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Life, Death and the Survival of the Fittest

Patrizia Chen | Posted 12.01.2012 | Green
Read More: Tokyo, Charles Darwin, Tumbling-Pigeons, Poultry, Rabbit, Japan, Survival, Sweden, Death, Life, Survival of the Fittest, Goldfish, Green News
Patrizia Chen

I was fascinated by a big aquarium in my cousin's living room in Japan. Fish of every shape and color revolved inside the tank, swimming between fake palm trees and fluttering plastic leaves.

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Does Natural Selection Really Explain What Makes Evolution Succeed?

James A. Shapiro | Posted 10.12.2012 | Science
Read More: Alfred Russell Wallace, Natural Genetic Engineering, Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin, Natural Selection, Survival of the Fittest, Rochard Dawkins, Descent-With-Modification, Cytogenetics, Evolurtion-Religion Debate, Molecular Genetics, Science News
James A. Shapiro

Did Wallace and Darwin hit the nail on the head and identify the crucial process of biological diversification? To most people, and especially to the evolutionist profession, the answer is so obviously "Yes" that even to pose the question subjects the person asking to abuse.

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Life Finds a Way -- But Needs Our Help

Carl Safina | Posted 09.16.2012 | Green
Read More: Coral, Coral Reefs, Survival of the Fittest, Fish, Ocean Acidification, Life Finds a Way, Pollution, Darwin, Overfishing, Roger Bradbury, Global Warming, Jurassic Park, Ocean Health, Oceans, Green News
Carl Safina

The science is clear that coral reefs are in many places degraded and in serious trouble. But no science has, or likely can, determine that reefs and all their associated non-coral creatures are unequivocally, equally and everywhere, completely doomed to total non-existence.

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If You Haven't Read the Book, The Hunger Games Is a Movie Without a Cause

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.27.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Jennifer Lawrence, Suzanne Collins, Dystopian Society, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Survival of the Fittest, Entertainment News
Jackie K. Cooper

In years past violence directed towards children was more or less off limits. Now, as this movie proves, they are fair game.

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Capitalism 2012: Rewriting the Rules of the Game

Monika Mitchell | Posted 01.01.2012 | Business
Read More: Economic System, Financial Industry, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park, Capitalist, Capitalism, Wall Street, Survival of the Fittest, Business News
Monika Mitchell

In the wake of the widening economic inequity in America and around the world, the old rules of capitalism are long past due for a drastic 21st century overhaul.

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Occupy Wall Street Is Just the Beginning: the Battle Against Financial Darwinism

E. Henry Schoenberger | Posted 12.12.2011 | Business
Read More: Darwinism, Financial Darwinism, #Occupywallstreet, Survival of the Fittest, Occupy Wall Street, Voting Rights, Business News
E. Henry Schoenberger

Nothing about the Occupy Wall Street movement should come as a great surprise, given the events of the past four years. The movement is emblematic of how people eventually respond to tyranny.

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Would Charles Darwin Get a Gun?

Bernard Starr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Second Amendment, Assault Weapons, Survival of the Fittest, Brady Law, Iq, Gun Control, Gunlaws, Intelligence Tests, Guns, Wechsler Intelligence Tests, Gun Violence, Intelligence, Right to Bear Arms, Charles Darwin, Gabrielle Giffords, Evolution, Genetics, Adaptation, Politics News
Bernard Starr

Another devastating chapter in our long history of massacres with guns unfolded in Tucson Arizona on January 8th with the ambush of Congresswoman Gabr...

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