Evolution has made humans both humans Machiavellian and born socialists

 

Image courtesy of David Oliete

Joel Kontinen

Humanity’s innate treachery is behind social ills ranging from inequality to abuse of power. Lessons fit from our ancestors can help defeat the enemy within

Darwinian evolution has made humans Machiawellian and born socialists, this is what New Scientist says, but it is not true, we know that evolution does not happen. It is just  a fairy tale.  I think that this has not do with the present woke ideology,

“Nearly 2 million years ago, one of our hominin ancestors developed bone cancer in their foot. The fate of this individual is unknown, but their fossilised remains leave no doubt that cancer has been a part of our story for a very long time. It is also clear that, when threatened by our own normally cooperative cells turning against us, we evolved an immune system to help us identify and deal with the enemy within.”

The dates given are not accurate, humans  had cancer but so early.

“But treacherous cancer cells weren’t the only internal threat our ancestors faced. As hypersocial beings, their survival was also jeopardised by selfish individuals attempting to subvert the group – and capable of unravelling society, just as a cancer eventually kills its host. I am interested in understanding how we adapted to this threat. At the heart of the story is this question: is human nature selfish or altruistic, competitive or cooperative? Are we essentially cancers, tamed by culture, or more like healthy cells in the human body, working together for mutual success?”

Source: 

Jonathan R. Goodman 2025 Evolution has made humans both Machiavellian and born socialists | New Scientist 9 July

 

Evolution discovers that the earliest human cancer was 1.7 million years ago

 

·        Image courtesy of Patrick Randolph-Quinney, UCLAN. 

Joel Kontinen

According to evolution, the first cancer in humans occurred 1.7 million years ago. This occurre around "1.7 million years ago. This individual, likely of the species Paranthropus robustus or Homo ergaster, lived with a malignant tumor in their left toe bone. Archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains inside Swartkrans cave, a limestone deposit in South Africa that's often called the Cradle of Humankind for being home to the largest concentration of human relative remains in the world." 

This evolution bases story does away with the Fall of Man  in Genesis 4, 

Source:  

 Nalewicki,  Jennifer, 2023,  What's the oldest known case of cancer in humans? Live Science  8 May,  

Evolution Can Explain Cancer But Hardly Anything Else

Charles Darwin’s famous “I Think” sketch, 1837. Public domain. It might explain cancer but hardly anything else.




Joel Kontinen

Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution is the title on an essay Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975) wrote for the American Biology Teacher magazine in 1973.

Recently, Mel Greaves, who seems to be a firm believer in Darwinian medicine, wrote an article entitled Nothing in cancer makes sense except…

The name is no accident, as Greaves references Dobzhansky’s essay and tries to persuade his readers that evolution can explain cancer.

It is perhaps a very fitting meaning of evolution, as even in theory, Darwinism can only break things and never make them.

Our cells have several strategies for getting rid of rogue or unwanted growth that could cause cancer, for instance apoptosis or programmed cell death and phagocytosis or the process of self-eating, where cells called macrophages or ‘big eaters’ (μακρος, makros ‘large’ and φαγειν. phagein ‘eat’) devour damaged cells.

These mechanisms are the opposite of Darwinian evolution.

This is not the first time Darwinists invoke cancer as an explanation for evolution.

Source:

Greaves, Mel et al. 2018. Nothing in cancer makes sense except… BMC Biology201816:22 (21 February).