The Case Against “Thinning the Herd”
the power of stockpiled variation
11 min readDec 17, 2020
The concept of the survival of the fittest has soaked as deeply into our popular culture as it has into our science. The assumption that “thinning the herd” is good for the herd has become nearly axiomatic in both, so accepted that media wags award “Darwin Awards” to people who find particularly dumb ways to die. Evolutionists even talk of…
