How is energy involved in natural selection?
The desirability of various strategies for obtaining energy from the environment and allocating it among different uses is determined by natural selection. Strategies that work are rewarded while strategies that do not work are punished. If a strategy works, an individual will have sufficient supplies of energy and will allocate it in ways that allow the individual to produce many offspring that survive and prosper. If the strategy is inherited by the offspring, the number of individuals that follow this strategy will increase in the next generation. If a strategy does not work, the individual will produce few offspring and these offspring will have a small probability of survival. As a result, the number of individuals that follow the strategy will decrease in the following generation.
