It's possible that some race will be eliminated because of survival of the fittest and natural selection?

Answer 1

No. Your question is flawed. You are assuming there are such things as different races. There's not. You have to talk about species if you are talking about natural selection. And there's only one human species.

By the way, Darwin never used the term 'survival of the fittest'; the term was used by Herbert Spencer in the late 19th century in the context of 'social evolution' (a flawed term in itself because it assumes a natural, progressive, teleological process of social change) as being driven by competition among people by which only those best suited to survive are able to do so - the term came to be used in support of Social Darwinist thinking (completely flawed and useless concept, though still popular) to justify the violent exploitation of one group of people over another.

Answer 2

Well, first thing to keep in mind is that "survival of the fittest" is not how evolution works. It's a popular phrase, not because it accurately reflects anything about natural evolution, but because it was promulgated by social Darwinists, who used (or, twisted, really) Darwin's theory of natural selection to suit 19th century race science and Malthusian economics. "Survival of the fittest" places emphasis on the organism, where natural selection places the emphasis on the environment/ecology.

Next thing to keep in mind is that races are not actually distinct biological groups. Races are social constructs, they are not scientifically verifiable. Race matters most in life when it comes to social and economic affairs. The races that people use to categorize other persons vary from country to country and culture to culture.

So, to answer your question. No, natural selection will not eliminate any particular races, ever. First, this is because the sort of selective pressures that affect races, which are not true biological categories (such as "species" are), are primarily social. This makes sense because races are products of society, not nature. For humans, economic and cultural considerations phenomena, such as warfare, poverty, and unequal access to health care are much more vital to the survival of any given group of people than how well they are adapted to their environment.

So, no.

Answer 3

If any race is eliminated, it will probably be through genocide. When one culture kills off another, it not not natural selection, but hate. It's not survival of the fittest, but survival of the most aggressive.

Answer 4

Let’s first begin by defining the concept of race. It is important to understand that race is a social construct - in other words, only 2 percent of our genes are ultimately responsible for the visible differences between two human beings. In fact if you study the research finding by genome project you will come to the conclusion that race difference really do not exist. The example often given is if you have two males the same weight, height and body structure they are more genetically similar to each other then their racial group. With that said lets focus on the human race.

Answer 5

What you posit is called " species selection " and is not true. Local populations of people may be eliminated, but by no means is this natural selection, as that works on individuals. Individuals are selected; populations evolve. Your question borders on the incoherent and I am having a hard time seeing what you are getting at, since we are all one " small species ", with a rather small, inter mixed gene pool. There is variance, but in relation to a species like chimps, we are rather close to one another. Learn evolutionary concepts first; then ask questions in this vein.

Answer 6

Victims of geographical location and scarce resources maybe but, races in general is no different than saying humanity as a whole. Natural selection is based on characteristics beneficial to survival and possibly courtship. Either way it doesn't work the way you are thinking. Unless there's another Holocaust based on inbreed research I don't think it'll happen.

Answer 7

No there is only one race the human race.We look different because of different climates and the traveling across the world. And when mother nature feels pressured she just evolves into something else. So you can never tell just by looking at someone which quote on quote race their from . In today's world with planes,trains and automobiles. Only your mother knows who's really your daddy.

Answer 8

Not with specific intention,but rather by natural progression. I do think that race will eventually become a thing of the past.
As counties become multiracial /multicultural and it becomes more normal than a rarity to see children of mixed heritage in school playground. This will be an inevitable fact.
In Australia,only 50 years ago, mixed race marriage was far from acceptable.Even Protestant and Catholic marriage was frowned upon.
In my own family of Anglo roots. We now cover four of the five continents in our racial heritage.
Those being,Europe,Africa,America and Australia.
This has only taken 40 years.
Now Australia like many other countries has a truly rainbow society, of beautiful, healthy children.
Many who have inherited the best of their parents races/heritages.
Our Earth is now truly a "Global Village" due to travel,migration, education and media connection.
With this truly multicultural world,eventually intolerance and prejudice will also hopefully, become a thing of our ignorant,isolated past.

Answer 9

Yes, it happens all the time, tragically enough. Examples are the Yanomani, the Khoi-San (or Bushmen), the Australian Aboriginals, the American Indians, the Papua of West-Papua. Some people have already perished, like the original inhabitants of Tasmania, the Caribean Islands, the Khoi-Khoi (or Hottentots of the Cape) and many more. Usually it happens when a people more aggressive, with a better technology settles in an area of people with a more traditional culture, or farmers in an area of hunters or pastoralists. The members of traditional society have to adapt or die. They must accept Christianity or the Islam, universal religions, providing networks and an ideology, that establishes their right to exist as human beings and brothers and sisters in God / Allah. They will have to accept formal education, and the indoctrination that goes with it. Reality is as the dominant culture tells you it is. Your original culture is superstition, primitive, underdeveloped, pagan. A problem has, in the past, also been in the lack of resistance of traditional people to alcohol, small pox and other diseases to which we have developed over centuries a resistance. But people have also been brutally exterminated because they were in the way of minerals or farm land. This happens today, e.g in Amazonia in Brazil and in the interior of West Papua by the Indonesian army and police. There is nothing automatical in this. It is not based on something like a scientific theory of darwinism, but on something that is done on purpose. The factors involved are human greed and the unwillingness to accept people who are seen as "different", "a-moral', "pagan", "primitive", "naked", in short "not like us."

Answer 10

yes of corse it may happpen but i won't sa due to survival of the fitest.
the selection is more likely to be unatural rather than natural as in the case of a genocide.
as races keep on mixing, races will die out.

for example the euro meditarreanean race was part of the 3 sub branches of the white race but that brach is considered to have died out as it was too mixed with north africa and and the other branches (nordic and alpine) of the white race.