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It may be easier to think of evolution as the force, and game theory strongly influencing the fitness test. Those who play the games of mating and predator/prey

It may be easier to think of evolution as the force, and game theory strongly influencing the fitness test. Those who play the games of mating and predator/prey more optimally reproduce more. We descend from billions of generations of the winners.

XorNot 6mo ago
We don't descend from winners, we descend from whoever survived and it's not an individual competition. If the only place a particularly beneficial mutation appears is wiped out by chance volcanic eruption, that's just how it is - the survivors who weren't near the volcano go on to reproduce.
- delichon 6mo ago
  In evolution the winners are the ones who survive to reproduce, and that includes 100% of our ancestors.
  - XorNot 6mo ago
    The cultural ramifications of choosing one word over another are significant though. "Winner" is a loaded term. > In evolution the survivors reproduced, and that includes 100% of our ancestors.
    - delichon 6mo ago
      The context is game theory. Games have winners and losers.
throwaway27448 6mo ago
> and game theory strongly influencing the fitness test Does it? I don't think reproduction is very influenced by game theory.
- delichon 6mo ago
  Biologist John Maynard Smith disagreed. Here he is talking about evolutionary game theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKegQW_lsGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKegQW_lsGI