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It's not survival of the fittest, its survival of the ones that survive. An organism can have many maladaptations and as long as it continues to be successful
by hobs 5y ago
It's not survival of the fittest, its survival of the ones that survive.
An organism can have many maladaptations and as long as it continues to be successful enough that they dont drag it down to complete extinction.
- throwamon 5y ago> An organism can have many maladaptations and as long as it continues to be successful enough ... Thus making it the fittest [among the population]?
- ljm 5y agoSurvival of the survivors is comically tautological. Surely there is still something that survivors have in common that makes them the fittest, or non-survivors have in common that makes them the not-fittest.
- jacobr1 5y agoThe point is more that the fitness occurs on a net-basis. The more-fit traits outweigh the unfit traits. It is equally possible that humans as a species or sub-groups of humans are fit _despite_ irrationality as opposed to irrationality being adaptive. I suspect, however, that irrationality is actually a collection of a wide variety of cognitive traits and heuristics, some helpful in some circumstance, some not helpful, and these are not only situational but also vary by degree.