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selection

Submitted by marquisedemerteuil on Tue, 02/27/2007 - 1:36am.

"Maybe this process is in and of itself natural selection."

I would argue that this can't be true because when employers select future employees it's not natural -- people are doing it, not mysterious forces of nature that are studied in the natural sciences. It would be "artificial selection" or even "business selection" (I hesitate to say "cultural selection" because I find that to be too general for this.) I find that it's easy to apply science concepts to the humanities so loosely that the humanities are distorted and oversimplified. That is a risk this class runs, but a good risk, because persuasive parallels can be found.

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