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The Importance of Natural Selection in Evolution
Where you end up on the evolutionary landscape just depends on your starting point. In evolutionary theory, natural selection contrary to common lore, it's considered a satisficing process. There is no drive somehow to worry that the best possible solution has been found. All the solutions in natural selection can find are constrained by the history of the organism and by the particular developmental molecular biology of the organism.