HEART OF DARKNESS. “It is only phenotypes that die, and thus selection on works on things it can see like phenotypes. The mechanism of natural selection is that some organisms survive better than others and reproduce more successfully, so you can only say that selection ‘sees’ what can live or die. Can a virus die? At whatever level an organism can live or die is where selection operates. This was Darwin’s theory of natural selection, and that can occur at any level. Richard Dawkins argues incorrectly that it is always genes that are selected for. It is a fundamental mistake.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022