Thou Shalt Not Anthropomorphize Natural Selection.
But Darwin did anthropomorphize natural selection:
If man can by patience select variations useful to him, why, under changing and complex conditions of life, should not variations useful to nature's living products often arise, and be preserved or selected? What limit can be put to this power, acting during long ages and rigidly scrutinising the whole constitution, structure, and habits of each creature,- favouring the good and rejecting the bad? I can see no limit to this power, in slowly and beautifully adapting each form to the most complex relations of life.
Metaphorical anthropomorphizing is fine so long as everyone is on the same page about what the metaphor is and it doesn't lead to any equivocations or confusions. Constant's use of anthropomorphizing language seems to have lead to him making a very troubling equivocation between what 'harms' genes and what harms human beings. One good strategy for clearing up such confusions is moving away from metaphorical language.
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