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A retrospective on agency (Ep 100)
Big Biology
Evolution by Natural Selection
When we talk about evolution by natural selection, we're referring to a set of conditions that when those conditions are met, then there's some predictable outcome. But I think what we're talking about is a much more inclusive thing than the temporal changes in lineage as transposable elements. It doesn't have like a heritable component in the same way that a multicellular organism would have. If there is an element that tries to propagate and make more copies of itself, then within the environment that it lives in inside that genome, it has higher fitness and it will propagate and increase. That's true.
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