The meaning of "adaptive" in the sense of evolutionary theory, and the capacity of species to evolve to extinction. Reading the selfish gene as a youth I missed

The meaning of "adaptive" in the sense of evolutionary theory, and the capacity of species to evolve to extinction. Reading the selfish gene as a youth I missed the point; "an alien god" [0] and some Hanson articles got the point across finally. [0] https://www.readthesequences.com/An-Alien-God https://www.readthesequences.com/An-Alien-God