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Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look – quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, ‘red in tooth and claw.’ That came about because people misread Darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest.’

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It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.

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Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one’s own genes in the generations to follow.

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May 6, 2024

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one’s own genes in the generations to follow.

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May 6, 2024

It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.

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