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Survival of the most constructive [1]

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Date: 2023-05-26

Survival of the fittest is only partially correct. Gene selfishness is not the overriding determinant of survival. Fitness, as defined in terms of bearing productive progeny, is but one term looking at limited time without considering community dynamics from colonizing stages through maturity, and thereby neglects thermodynamically driven system trends towards equilibrium states. I further speculate that survival of the fittest predominates most in more chaotic, further from equilibrium systems.

A more accurate model will include not only individual fitness, but also contributions to community fitness, which can be defined as the sum of other community member fitnesses, and may well include energy terms, such as community biomass or exergy dissipation.

OK, OK, I’ll go search pubmed and other DBs for related peer reviewed work. In the meantime, I’m happy to converse about survival of the most constructive further and add links to terms here, if there is interest.

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