4/25/12

Everyone has heard of survival of the fittest, at least anyone that has taken a biology class. It is the process of selecting an animal to survive based on who's most "fit". But philosophers argue what it means to be the most fit, does it mean that you are the most physically fit, or the smartest, or the animal that just has the best luck? Some would argue that it depends on the situation. We talked about in class how a snake would be able to crawl through a small hole to survive, yet even though we are smarter as humans and kill snakes all the time in that example the snake would be more fit. But if it came to be able to create a way to feed yourself for live and make the tools to make that skill easier humans would triumph any animal. I feel that we are all fit in different ways but it's just the environment that you are in and what danger you need to survive that makes all the difference. We might be one of the smartest animals on earth, but we defiantly aren't the most capable animals to survive.