Commonizing costs and privatizing profits;

the rationality of free enterprise in a mixed economy of the corporate state.

20           Commonizing the costs of enterprise                             Hardin, pp. 104-114.

                  Darwinism and Neo-Darwinism: Weissman  Heredity”   Mayr, 90-131.

Dialectic:

Two opposing views to account for the way something is described based on its behavior.

Biotic communities have reproductive potential based on populations’ capacity to vary, recombine and successfully raise offspring with some of the variability inherent in the ancestral species.

Culture or the means of passing on acquired traits or learned behavior: soft inheritance.

 

Biotic communities

Culture

Natural selection

Artificial selection

Site of evolution

 Financial marketplace

Source of ecological services

Domesticated crops

Accumulating natural capital

Commonwealth
influenced by genetics

Weismann established seven supporting arguments to sustain natural selection as operating on the genotype in clearly material and particular ways to alter subsequent populations.

He refuted soft inheritance in terms of hard (material alteration of the genotype) inheritance:

  1. Populations must adapt to physical conditions (biota and habitat)
  2. As conditions change there is selective pressure on surviving members. (ecosystem)

Hardin raises the question in the CC PP Game (where societies institutions seek to commonize costs (externalities and subsidies) and privatize profits (what is accounted for and shared with investors) of whether or not culture (acquired traits or soft inheritance) is used to compensate for the actions of natural selection and if so, to what extent can this interference in biology be justified by culture?

  1. biology includes how the genotype is expressed in the phenotype and its subsequent spread through a population. (Hard inheritance)
  2. culture includes those traits acquired and passed on by sensory impressions, learning, practice and experimentation. (Soft inheritance)

 

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