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Re: Why do we know all of this? (was Re: evolution)
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Thu, 9 Mar 2000 05:50:46 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher Tracey writes:
I disagree with the term "Survival of the Fittest," shouldn't it be
something more like "Reproduction of the Fittest(1)?"

Well, the fittest *individuals* don't survive forever, obviously.  What really
survives, past one lifetime, are the fittest *genotypes*.

--
John J. Ladasky Jr., Ph.D.
Department of Structural Biology
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, CA 94305



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  Re: Why do we know all of this? (was Re: evolution)
 
(...) I disagree with the term "Survival of the Fittest," shouldn't it be something more like "Reproduction of the Fittest(1)?" Darwin and some of his contemporaries did create the theory of evolution through natural selection, one of the first (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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