Classical utilitarianism has the deficiency, that it favorsexpansion at the cost of the quality of life, seeRepugnant Conclusion. Unconditional expansionism is a characteristic of theutility function of biology(the maximal proliferation of genes). It not only leads to lives with minimal welfare, but...
In the 1920s and 1930s the so-calledmodern synthesisconnected natural selection, mutation theory, and Mendelian inheritance into a unified theory that applied generally to any branch of biology (…).The publication of the structure ofDNAbyJames WatsonandFrancis Crickin 1953 demonstrated a physical ...