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> Each evolutionary step was selected because it worked not really. selected is the wrong word - survived is more appropriate. evolution isn't a set of preorda
by shady-lady 9y ago
> Each evolutionary step was selected because it worked
not really. selected is the wrong word - survived is more appropriate. evolution isn't a set of preordained occurrences.
it's a random mutation which happened to survive - this can be due to many reasons (only one of which is "it worked")
- inimino 9y ago> selected is the wrong word It’s literally in the name “natural selection”. Survival is selection.
- shady-lady 9y agoNo.
- SolaceQuantum 9y agoSelection in the evolutionary biology sense is not with the connotations of the common word. Selection is considered as a pressure on a population, and not a picking and choosing of individuals exactly, merely the picking off of individuals that for some reason or another cannot breed.