Well, so much for Darwin's Theory...

[Lisa0825]

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[applegrove]

1. 'Different species evolved due to changes in the environment, via mutation

and natural selection, thus the fittest survive and those who fail to do so leave fossils proving former existence'. The GOP and Trump are fossils. As are the people who voted for them.

[63splitwindow]

2. Darwin has been mischaracterized...

survival of the fittest means by no means mean the most "civilized" at all. Remember, cockroaches would survive a nuclear holocaust that humans would not. So the human liars, cheaters, stealers and murderers might be the more "advanced" humans. Well, that's a pretty fucking depressing thought, isn't it?

[timdiaz]

4. Opposite path of evolution

This thought is disappointing. Why people take rap for the others? And how long would it take?

So the human liars, cheaters, stealers and murderers might be the more "advanced" humans.

I suppose that it’s a degradation, not an advance.

[The2ndWheel]

6. Or we have an illusion of direction

[Coventina]

7. Altruism has a survival value as well. n/t

[Jim Lane]

3. H. L. Mencken had the same idea about the Scopes trial

Someone had had the bright idea of bringing to Dayton in a gorilla in a cage to exhibit. "People crowded in to contemplate whether this monster could be their kinsman," Mencken wrote. "The poor brute cowered in a corner with his hands over his eyes, afraid it might be true."

[Gothmog]

5. Great cartoon