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Does Evolution Justify Selfish Behavior?

April 26, 2017Behavior Evolution justify selfish

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Does Evolution Justify Selfish Behavior?

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The term “Survival of the Fittest” started being used as a metaphor for the theory of evolution by natural selection but, as it turns out, the term misrepresented the theory and caused confusion. It doesn’t mean best, baddest, or meanest, just most suited to the ecological niche at the time.