the slogan is not a good representation of the theory of natural selection. — SophistiCat
Darwin responded positively to Alfred Russel Wallace's suggestion of using Spencer's new phrase "survival of the fittest" as an alternative to "natural selection", and adopted the phrase in The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication published in 1868.[1][2] In On the Origin of Species, he introduced the phrase in the fifth edition published in 1869,[3][4] intending it to mean "better designed for an immediate, local environment".[5][6] — Wikipedia
I know, it appears that I have fallen and I can't get up!
If someone tells me these are just extra-chance-random features of consciousness, then I ask them for what reason? — 3017amen
Evolution, music and math — 3017amen
I always assumed @Pattern-chaser was named in answer to this question. — bongo fury
What question, pray tell? :chin — Pattern-chaser
Still, it is a common (and to me reasonable) conjecture that evolution has endowed us with a general thirst for pattern. — bongo fury
by the way what kind of cats do you own? I used to have a few himalayan's and I actually had a dream about baby Lions last night haha. — 3017amen
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