Hummingbirds are genetically wired to build a nest to help ensure that it has a place like the great great grandmother hummingbirds have been doing it. It’s a survival trait that’s been passed on from hummingbird to hummingbird. Just like how our grandparents cooked for us, we subconsciously learn that cooking food is a necessity to live. This bring us to the 4 points Darwin notices in Kingsolver’s quote about “the greatest, simplest, most logical… natural life?”; every organism more offspring/seeds that will actually survive and make it to adulthood, variation, traits are passed down from generation to generation, and in each generation that survives, they possessed some advantages that benefitted them and kept them alive over the weak (fittest…show more content… But a good counter argument to this would be a corgi. Those cute bundle of joys are breed for their cuteness but if they were set into the wild, they would die within a few weeks or a month. I think in our generation right now, I don’t think survival of the fittest applies anymore because we’re so technologically more advance, we don’t die from colds anymore and lots of diseases are curable or at least treatable. Vavilov discovered that genetic diversity wasn’t evenly distributed. Some plants were more blessed than the others. The problem this caused was like the “Magic Wheat” example; the results are immediate but they degrade over time. The crop the Ethiopian farmer had was used to the weather and soil and conditions of the land but the farmer was greedy and wanted a crop that grew 6x larger than his and got it for free through the government arrangement. But the Magic Wheat might grow well the first crop year, and it might die because of a natural disaster the next and every stalk dies, but that’s not even the worse part, if the Magic Wheat dies further down the line, like after 3 years, the farmer wouldn’t even have the seeds of his previous wheat to replace it. I think that’s the problem with society, we want so much for so little
