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> "Good evolution" is essentially devoting the maximum amount of (usually very limited) resources towards successful procreation and rearing offspring. It's no
by datenwolf 10y ago
> "Good evolution" is essentially devoting the maximum amount of (usually very limited) resources towards successful procreation and rearing offspring.
It's not that simple. If producing the maximum amount of offspring were the goal, populations of a species would quickly collapse. It's also a poor principle to explain social behavior and organisms living in hives or strictly hierarchically procreating groups.
A much better model principle would be, that evolution optimizes for maximum probability of the _offspring_ to successfully procreate. By adding this layer of indirection a lot more of what we can observe in biology can be explained with less presumptions (Occam's Razor).
- antisthenes 10y agoThat does sound like a better way to explain it. My post was just layman speculation, as I'm not a biologist/ecologist.