Does charity and welfare slow down human evolution by hampering natural selection?
The question is about evolutionary biology and how it applies to Homosapiens living in a society that advocates protecting the weakest. I realize that all social organisms such as ants and elephants protect the weakest among them to a certain extend, but these organisms cannot do it as effectively as modern human beings with all their technology.
No, if anything it speeds it up. Fit does not equal rich. Fit means able to pass along DNA.
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Well when Darwim made his theory of evolution he did not suggest nor intend to suggest it be applied to human beings. Human beings have emotions and relationships for a reason. Because of this it is in our instinct to help out others that are weaker. We as a human race have survived all this time helping each other out so no one can say doing so will be our downfall because weaklings are surviving. Perhaps this is why certain animal species have perished, because they didn’t effectively help each other out…