3 - Animals' Choices

Misusing the phrase "survival of the fittest", Darwinists fail to pursue the logic of evolution - for when bigger, stronger types monopolize habitats, smaller or weaker types must adapt.

The privileged group therefore remains at its primitive level, while the non-privileged group evolves intellectually and physically. ³¹

If Darwinists were logical - not chauvinist - they would say "Stagnation of the strongest, Evolution of the weakest". A look at both fossil and living evidence indicates that this always applies to catastrophic and non-catastrophic ^{32 & 33} evolutionary divergence.

Fresh findings:-

In the 1930's zoologists became aware of a new type of chimpanzee living in central-west Africa, in areas where it has been pushed by the older and larger chimpanzees and gorillas.

The older chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes, was previously thought to be our nearest DNA relative, being closer to humans than the gorilla. We are said to have diverged from the other apes more than 5 or 6 million years ago, although more recent findings might extend that to over 7 million years. ^33A
DNA testing shows that this `younger' chimpanzee - Pan paniscus - split away from the older chimpanzees about 3 million years later, 2- 3 million years ago.

The new chimpanzee, the Bonobo, is smaller, slighter and more intelligent than its older cousin.

The females, with greater equality and a stronger socializing influence, help create a more peaceful and sharing^33B community, for there is less communal or sexual ³⁴ violence in this new species.

Significantly they have been driven into the least attractive food habitat and excluded from territory dominated by bigger, stronger, more primitive chimpanzees and gorillas.

Pan Paniscus is a smaller, weaker, less aggressive, more intelligent chimpanzee. It is dominated and deprived of food by its larger more aggressive "old chimpanzee" cousins.

Pan paniscus could never have evolved - if crude Darwinian 'survival of the fittest' were true. ³⁷

These facts indicate the "Altruist Survivor" principle is operating in our closest relatives.