The Evolution of Brett and the Four Characteristics of Natural Selection

Brett: I think it is worth coming at this in a slightly different way. Because I think very frequently we make natural selection more mystical than it really ought to be. That really it's an extension of a very basic process that exists outside of the biological world. So if you eliminate any one of these things, then you don't get natural selection. You get something else that has some of its characteristics, but none of its power. But the thing that I learned, and actually I learned this from Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene.