At 10:27 PM -0600 2/20/02, Mike Scoles wrote:
>Larry Daily wrote:
>
>> The current crop of beasties on the planet are the ones
>> best suited to live in the current environment.
>
>Almost.  The are the best suited to reproduce in the current environment.  It
>doesn't matter how good you are at survival.  If you don't breed, you don't
>evolve.  It isn't survival of the fittest,  it is survival of the horniest.

Assuming that the offspring survive long enough to procreate.

Natural selection involves variation, reproduction and survival.

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