Sentences with phrase «sorted by natural selection»

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Evolution in a pure Darwinian world has no goal or purpose: the exclusive driving force is random mutations sorted out by natural selection from one generation to the next.»

But if you strip away all the paraphernalia then really what culture is about at its core is about innovations that are not encoded in the genome somehow and are passed on, not by genetic transmission, and are not sort of shaped by natural selection, which is the normal stuff of evolution; but it is transmitted socially through social learning.

But even those who loathe Herbert Spencer and his theories on natural selection should question these characters and their motivations, whether motivated by guilt or a sort of perverse white supremacist ignorance.