Evolutionary Contradiction - Victorious the losers

The life on earth begins from smallest single-cellular organisms. Life develops itself to bigger and more complex animals and plants by a rule of natural selection as given by Charles Darwin. Darwin has written that every organism has a natural tendency to adapt to its surroundings. Those organisms, which do that effectively, leads to development of new features as a result of adaptation. Those organisms, which are unable to adapt, die. Mr. Darwin, unfortunately, took only a small time frame to propose his theory - may be a few generations. If this evolution is studied for a longer time frame, it is easy to notice a contradiction in the theory when extended for longer time frames. If Darwin's theory is true then as the organism tries to adapt itself to the unfriendly environment and/or to get better than his peers, he only gets better and better at what he is supposed to do to be alive. If a monkey is supposed to reach to the food before his buddies do, then he needs to be more agile and nimble. As more and more generations pass, the monkeys to come become better and better at what they actually are. Thus, all the evolution has done is to produce better monkeys. Why then we, the humans, are so different from the monkeys? This is because we chose not to do what the monkeys were doing. Humans were those monkeys which lost out in the race to be more agile and nimble. They were those monkeys which could not reach to food before it was already eaten by the better monkeys.

One of the path-breaking events which occurred in the human history was drying of Africa. As Africa dried out, number of trees reduced and the monkeys had to come down to the land to look for food. These , of course, were the monkeys who did not get the share of the pie on trees. They were the losers. Now, the food on the land was not easy to find unless the head is raised above the grass of Africa. But raising one's head in the grass is full of danger as predators are on the look out of easy prey. Those who did raise their head from the grass were the ones who were not quick enough to reach to the easily accessible food on the ground. Those who did attempt to raise the head , and were able to reach the food first stood to gain and those who did not had to rise up and stand on the two feet instead of four to see the distant food. These, again, were the losers and our first ancestors.

The crux of the matter is that although the survival of the fittest holds good within one species and its evolution from the primitive form to contemporary, it is those who lost out in this evolution who grew into new species. These were the survivors who were not fittest but found ways to evolve nevertheless into better, stronger species. Similarly, The true development of next intelligent species will not be from the brightest and smartest humans. We can expect the next race of rulers of earth from the people we think the least of. Victorious the losers!