The Survival of the Fittest Model is Not the Fittest Model of Evolution
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  • T Clark
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    What's the evolutionary benefit? — MikeL

    A population of organisms that has greater genetic diversity is more able to change genetically in response to environmental changes better.
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  • MikeL
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    I look forward to talking more tomorrow T Clark, but before I go, if it's just living, why bother with all the meiosis and sex organs and gestation and child raring. Why not just be, and then be gone from existence? Its an awful lot of fuss over nothing.
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  • MikeL
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    is more able to change genetically in response to environmental changes better. — T Clark

    But why bother?
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  • T Clark
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    I look forward to talking more tomorrow T Clark, but before I go, if it's just living, why bother with all the meiosis and sex organs and gestation and child raring. Why not just be, and then be gone from existence? Its an awful lot of fuss over nothing. — MikeL

    It's just the way we're built, whoever or whatever built us.
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  • MikeL
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    You're not invoking a sentience I hope T Clark. Talk to you later.
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