re: Why does society worship science, but ignore natural selection in the human race?

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The definition of the word "fittest" is ever-changing, to make sense in terms of what characteristics of a mutated individual give them a significant advantage to survive and reproduce, while the rest of it's non-affected population fail and die away.

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The definition of the word fitness still refers to reproductive success, and does not include the environmental conditions that may modulate specific traits. The degree that you see generation to generation modulation is extremely small, though, as quantifying what “advantage” is related by a mutation is not straight-forward, because the genetic code does not represent a 1-to-1 relationship between the code and the phenotype.