{"id":66668,"date":"2017-06-05T15:03:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T22:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=66668"},"modified":"2017-06-05T15:03:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T22:03:25","slug":"darwinian-fitness-of-the-tamils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/05\/darwinian-fitness-of-the-tamils\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwinian Fitness of the Tamils"},"content":{"rendered":"

R Chandrasoma<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

In Biological discourse, fitness is measured by the ability to overcome challenges and to expand into habitats heretofore unoccupied. This \u2018Darwinian Fitness\u2019 has little to do with intrinsic worth or elegance of organization. As an example, the Norway Rat has a world-wide distribution bespeaking its extraordinary Darwinian Fitness. In contrast, the Giant Panda \u2013 a most beautiful creature \u2013 is close to extinction in its native habitats. \u00a0Let us look at human races \u2013 some dominate the world while others are at the edge of extinction. A good measure of this biological success is the spread of the genes that act as racial markers. The White Caucasoid genes are represented by racial groups that straddle the globe and there is no need to add that they call the shots in Global politics.<\/p>\n

Let us look at the \u2018Darwinian Fitness\u2019 of the two major racial groups in Sri Lanka. The Tamil genes have spread across the globe due to the expansive vigour of this race. Starting about a century ago, the Tamils \u2013 originally in South India \u2013 spread to South Africa, Malaysia, Fiji, and other distant habitats. About a century later there was a major expansion into Europe and North America with Britain and Canada as the principal recipients of this human \u2018baggage\u2019. Last to be mentioned – but not least \u2013 was the great movement within Sri Lanka where Tamils by the million invaded the Sinhala heartland and became permanent residents of the South. Given this stupendous success as a vigorous variant of a biological species, why this foul-mouthing and complaining about the \u2018intolerance\u2019 of the Sinhala people? More intriguingly, why do our leading politicians point the finger at the Sinhala People as the perpetrators of an historic injustice to the Tamils when it is the runaway demographic success of the Tamils that is the real danger to an imperiled Sri Lanka? That the Tamils and Muslims will outnumber the native Sinhala people in the decades ahead is a foregone conclusion. It is the sad extinction of a once glorious race that will trouble the historian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

R Chandrasoma In Biological discourse, fitness is measured by the ability to overcome challenges and to expand into habitats heretofore unoccupied. This \u2018Darwinian Fitness\u2019 has little to do with intrinsic worth or elegance of organization. As an example, the Norway Rat has a world-wide distribution bespeaking its extraordinary Darwinian Fitness. In contrast, the Giant Panda […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r-chandrasoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}