> I don’t think anything evolved to die Agreed, but.. > Dying is a prerequisite to evolution. If every individual were to survive, the gene pool would not con

> I don’t think anything evolved to die Agreed, but.. > Dying is a prerequisite to evolution. If every individual were to survive, the gene pool would not converge towards more advantageous adaptations. This is kinda wrong. Reproduction is the perquisite for evolution. Evolution does not care much about your "survival" as a whole, especially after you reproduced. In "Survival of the fittest", you can better think of survival on the level of genes, not individuals, for the most part.