And so the feminist dream inches closer!
>they were misidentified as men 19 per cent of the time
;)
But to other points, "fitness" in evolutionary terms has a circular definition. It's fit if it survives and survives if it's fit. Evolution as a theory does not appear to have any predictive capability. A pointless theory in my view.
With regard to nature and equal opportunity, the point is that all organisms face the environment on their own terms, rather than having the deck stacked against them by politics. White people do worse in hot deserts and black people do worse in northern latitudes, but nature doesn't prestack the deck by raising the survival bar in order to favour one group or another. Unlike the fire service and some American universities, Nature provides the same survival threshold for all.
If the anthropomorphism triggers you, think of "nature" as a contraction of "natural forces".
Biting the hand that feeds IT
