Evolution and Practice

From the earliest part of its history, perhaps even in Eden, Humans have sought to control reproductive processes--not only by devices such as condoms, but by institutions such as arranged marriages, as well.  Now, Reproduction is the motor of History.  So, insofar as History is determined by an Evolutionist principle, Evolution has been Practical from the earliest days.  Now, though Reproduction has usually been conceived as determined by a Survival principle, eugenics, miscegenation, and the common parental instinct that their children have a life that is 'better than' theirs, are indications that in reproducing, the species seeks growth of some kind.  Thus, even if 'Evolutionism' is commonly conceived, following Darwin, as a Theory, i. e. a description, of the Human species as apes with a better survival potential than other apes, long before the appearance of that theory, Practical Evolutionism, by which the species has grown, is among the earliest of Human methods, even if it still has yet to be recognized as such.