"You , in effect , are still accepting this straw man depiction of Darwinism , even after I pointed out that natural selection works on traits that are passed on from one generation to another by individuals - not social classes or racial groups ."
"* * This , of course , is completely wrong , since all we ever hear from morning 'til nite is that , according to the population genetist prevailing norion of evolution , Darwinian evolution does not work on individuals but only on 'populations ' ! ! Social classes and groups divided by skin colour or cultural norms are as much , 'populations ' , as ever there were . Class warfare is every bit a part of Darwinian cut-throat , competitive , war of all against all in order to acquire large stocks of scarce resourses for oneself and 'people like us ' , as any other off-shoot of laissez-faire capitalism or feudal land-grabbing or any other form of of institutionalised , legalised , inequality . To this very day it is used over and over again to block social and economic reform by blaming the victim of property laws set up to preserve elitism by inheritance instead of individual talent and effort , and to deprive the disadvantaged of the benefits that should be theirs by simple membership in the commonwealth . OTH , Lamarckian evolution is a matter of individual organisms surviving , thriving , and reproducing by their own individual efforts , regardless of anything any other organism around them is doing to adapt to the stimuli of a vitally and chronically , randomly altered environment ."
"natural selection works on traits that are passed on from one generation to another by individuals"
"completely wrong ,"