Na'vi sociology

[Human No More]

Originally Posted by Raptor

If this is indeed true, would that mean that because of Eywa and the abundance of resources, natural selection is weak on Pandora?

In some cases, the complete opposite. They have a normal genetic diversity, while becoming too narrow has its own problems. Active control would look very different, because if selection was being directly influenced, we'd be seeing 'remote control' animals and plants all the time, while, for example, no Na'vi would ever fail at hunting.

Originally Posted by Aquaplant

I don't think they even have such concept as wealth or property, so kind of hard for there to be any. Kind of like they didn't even really have the concept of lying, until humans came along that is.

Property, yes; currency; no. Big difference. Not 'wealthy' by (equivalent) name, perhaps, but able to understand "he has a really nice bow, a beautiful mate, and knows someone who makes the best loincloths".

Well it's not possible to "cheat" nature without intellect and tools, and as we are pretty much the only species in possession of both in sufficiently advanced quality, so we are capable of cheating and destroying the balance, but animals could not cheat, even if they wanted to, so that is why they do not behave that way.

Our technological superiority allows us to cheat, because we can use all manner of tools to fight against nature that would normally reduce our population, but because we cheat, nature is loosing that fight, until there will no longer be either us or nature left.

Exactly. It's nothing that any other animal wouldn't do if that had the ability and the intelligence.

The result of competition is what makes a functional ecosystem.

Exactly. It's also, in the extreme long term, what keeps every species from drifting apart with random mutational divergences.