Sublime

Misinterpretations of Darwin have generated a narrative about human society that is rooted in a zero-sum, survivalist mindset. In his classic work The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin only mentioned the phrase “survival of the fittest” twice; he mentioned the word “love” ninety-five times.11 Darwin believed that empathy is our strongest instinct and

Darwinian evolution uniquely solves the problem of life’s statistical improbability, because it works cumulatively and gradually. It really does broker a legitimate traverse from primordial simplicity to eventual complexity – and it is the only known theory capable of doing so. Human engineers can make complex things by design, but the whole point

The polygyny in our evolutionary past shouldn’t surprise us—none of the other extant great ape species are monogamous.

“I have to say, you’re wrong. Natural selection is a universal principle, which applies to all living things, but it can take all sorts of forms. It exists even in the plant world, where it’s a matter of access to nutritious soil, to water, to sunlight … Man is an animal, as we know, but he’s not a prairie dog or an antelope. His dominance doesn’t

À présent, l’évolution se fait en grande partie par le biais des variations et de la sélection naturelle. Les

What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet.

Nature’s way of testing any self-replicating device is competition. For over three and a half billion years,354 she has set the products of the genetic system in a race to see who can corner the good things of this life.