This idea gets Darwinians upset and the idea turned around. Richard Dawkins, a main critic of Gaia, expresses that natural selection thrives on the basis of self-centeredness for organisms in order to survive and flourish. Dawkins argument is weak and at the same time actually helps support Gaia. Gaia is based on final causation, and natural selection is all about survival of the fittest. These two are correlated because at the end of the system, when one species dies out, it is benefitting the rest of the ecosystem whether it be through decaying minerals or allowing another species to increase in numbers. Dawkins states that there is no final causations in natural selection, but that’s exactly what it portrays. He says, “Natural selection always acts first for the good of the individual; benefits for the whole arise as fortunate side effects” (27). This clearly shows that natural selection does some way or another relate to benefitting the world as a
This idea gets Darwinians upset and the idea turned around. Richard Dawkins, a main critic of Gaia, expresses that natural selection thrives on the basis of self-centeredness for organisms in order to survive and flourish. Dawkins argument is weak and at the same time actually helps support Gaia. Gaia is based on final causation, and natural selection is all about survival of the fittest. These two are correlated because at the end of the system, when one species dies out, it is benefitting the rest of the ecosystem whether it be through decaying minerals or allowing another species to increase in numbers. Dawkins states that there is no final causations in natural selection, but that’s exactly what it portrays. He says, “Natural selection always acts first for the good of the individual; benefits for the whole arise as fortunate side effects” (27). This clearly shows that natural selection does some way or another relate to benefitting the world as a