260 - Survival of the "Fittest"

It’s red in tooth and claw, a war of all against all, as each individual gene struggles to survive at the expense of others in a zero-sum competition for reproduction across generations, which coincidentally serves to naturalize the rule of the rich and powerful, and justify cruelty and indifference towards the weak, this week, on SRSLY WRONG. Support the show!http://patreon.com/srslywrongTheme Song by Trái Bơ:https://traibo.bandcamp.com/ Links:Stephen Jay Gould at OpenLibrary: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL27964A/Stephen_Jay_GouldKropotkin was No Crackpot by Stephen J Gould: https://www.marxists.org/subject/science/essays/kropotkin.htmMutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Kropotkin: https://libcom.org/article/mutual-aid-factor-evolution-peter-kropotkinPopular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s: https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/popular+eugenicsElon Musk’s Idiocracy/Eugenics Tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1537975779379662852Types of Biological Interactions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_interaction#CommensalismMutualism (Biology): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(biology)Plants Show Alternative to Survival of the Fittest: https://www.rae.org/essay-links/plantfungus/The Ecology of Mutualism by Douglas Boucher: https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/677/annurev.es.13.110182.pdf?sequence=1The Philosophy of Social Ecology by Murray Bookchin: https://libcom.org/article/philosophy-social-ecology-essays-dialectical-naturalismOn the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1228/1228-h/1228-h.htmThe Stephen Jay Gould Archive (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBTQy191Tg2Z1RHCz_gupVwWar Against the Weak by Edwin Brown: ISBN-10 1568582587Dawkins vs Gould by Kim Sterelny: ISBN-10: 1840467800Entangled Life by Merlin Skeldrake: ISBN-10: 052551032XEver Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould: ISBN-10: 9780393308181The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould: ISBN-10: 0674006135Murray Bookchin at The Anarchist Library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/murray-bookchinPyotr Kropotkin at The Anarchist Library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/petr-kropotkin