Selection, the struggle — and Darwin's blind spot
Darwin gave scientific evidence for natural selection based strictly on genetic self-interest. Fitness is not strength or virtue; it is the reproductive edge a trait confers in a specific environment. And as Frank Ryan argues, cooperation is one of the most powerful of those traits.
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On the Origin of Species supplied evidence, not speculation: traits vary, variation is inherited, and the environment decides which variants leave more descendants.
Write your own notes once you have finished On the Origin of Species / Darwin's Blind Spot, then revisit them before class. Notes are private to your account and never seen by anyone else.