gregpriest.bsky.social
PhD in history and philosophy of science (also JD and MLA), Stanford. Biology, complexity, diagramming. Philosophy of history. Curates these BlueSky feeds: History and Philosophy of Biology Complexity Science Philosophy of History and Historiography
👤 Joined on 25 julio 2023
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@gregpriest.bsky.socialThey Live (Mid-19th Century Geology Controversy Version)
Show PostI keep hearing that he was a fan of Malthus however he said: Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in a few thousand years, there would literally not be standing room for his progeny at the end of the fifth century there would be alive fifteen million elephants
Show PostThe only British biologist that I can find he had a good word for was Francis Galton, who was keen on Eugenics and selective breeding. He owned a copy of Galton's Hereditary Genius (1869).
Show PostWe would adapt to the situation, after a lot of pain and death. And the new culture would make the conservative high honor repressive cultures we have now seem like free love hippy ones.
Show PostThanks to Greg Priest for this. Yep, survival of the fittest isn't the same as everyone out for themselves. Glad we don't have a society based on bee ethics.
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