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Natural selection doesn't work how you think it does. It's about fitness for making to the point where you have reproduced. Dying after that point doesn't come
by petewailes 12y ago
Natural selection doesn't work how you think it does. It's about fitness for making to the point where you have reproduced. Dying after that point doesn't come into it much, except in that surviving after is a result of other properties that are also good.
- eevilspock 12y agoNothing I said contradicts your description of natural selection, that "fitness for making to the point where you have reproduced." But you are missing my point that the rate of evolution produced by natural selection is dependent on the turnover of the population. The parents need to die to make room for more fit offspring once the carrying capacity of the eco-system has been reached. If you still disagree, can you follow the link and point out flaws in the logic there?