Natural Selection - Survival of the Fittest

Panama, Central America, as dawn breaks the forest comes alive, this is one of the richest environments on Earth. Here more than anywhere you cannot avoid one inescapable fact – life is varied!

But what created this dazzling diversity, and how did the Earth’s myriad of species come to be? Some think they must be the work of a divine creator. Darwin on the other hand claimed that they evolved naturally through a process called natural selection, one of the most breathtaking ideas ever conceived.

How can a blind undirected force of nature create new species? Darwin saw the answer in an unlikely place, the relentless slaughter of the natural world. Some individuals have characteristics that make them more likely to survive, these individual are more likely to live long enough to produce young – this is survival of the fittest.

Darwin said that over many generations these small differences can grow into large differences, with the changes eventually becoming so great that they lead to new species. This explains how life gets more complex, but how does it get more diverse and how does one species become two – according to Darwin the answer lies in the environment.

[MrFossilabgfyth]

Survival of the fittest is misunderstood often.
It's not the strongest, but the one that is suited to adapt.

[ben_lyngdoh]

I've always believe it's...
Survival of the luckiest.

The mammals were "lucky" to have traits that helped to survive the asteroid apocalypse.

The slot (slowest mammal) is lucky to have lived in a time period (when Earth has enough green cover) that allows it to survive.

The modern chicken is lucky enough to be domesticated, under human care, to be able to propagate around the world.

So the common traits within the species, the time period and the context matters. Individually we cannot influence it. Thus it's LUCK.

We should be thankful that we are here.

[saaimshafi]

Darwin didn’t say survival of fittest as technically fittest creature, he rather said fittest in a sense of reproductive fitness.

[gusgrizzel]

Everyone isn't equal. Especially with intelligence.

[sarthakthememegod]

My Mom Enters the Room
Mom: Show me What are u doin'?
Me: It's Homework
Mom(Confused): Oh Yes Homework

[gabemesa]

Crazy, i swear i was just thinking about how eyes developed. Then this video is talking about eyes.

[englishtranslation]

Very good and time spent lecture . Very interesting to watch

[badfiction]

This video was probably shot before 2010

[silverwiskers]

I'm not religious by any means but sometimes I wonder, things are to perfect for man and the horse is one, many food types are another, I could go on and on, this is when i claim agnostic

[infinitecanadian]

I think that natural selection was divinely inspired.

[thedoc]

Sorry I might be missing something here, but don't you need an optic nerve and visual cortex to create an image. Does the jellyfish actually "see" anything?

[KayakithLebita]

Too bad human doesn't evolve to become more discipline

[MT-ubqg]

I love how they want you to believe intelligent design and natural selection is mutually exclusive....lol
Is there anyone still alive making that argument?

[selwynpinder]

Where did the natural selection came from. ?

[LINXX]

How the weak escape into a world of strength and high expectations I will never understand.

[rauf]

Evolving can also happen in the speed of light
I mean look how we've evolved in this time of corona😂
Specially a party boy doesn't go out of home😉😉😆

[mikedan]

Darwin was right because he came from dust and returned to dust. That was his evolution.

[tracesprite]

Charles Darwin created the brilliant theory that the current collection of animals and plants that we have on this planet is the result of an intense competition for the survival of the fittest
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This begs the question of what qualities make us mammals fit for survival. Many assume that competition should involve the most ruthless and cut-throat battle possible. My theory is that we humans, in particular, survive and thrive through a complex mix of competition and cooperation.

For example, those areas in America where people constantly fight and shoot one another should, theoretically, be generating ever more fit and capable beings as the weaker ones get killed. However in reality, the exhaustion of living in such mayhem means that people indulge in desperate drug use and crime, in an attempt to self-soothe within the misery of their lives. They are too unhappy to be healthy or successful.

In fact, it is a supportive community which enables people to live successful, healthy lives and to successfully rear their children to a strong, capable adulthood. Thus, the kind of cooperation that creates such a supportive community is necessary for the members of that community to compete successfully for survival.

Some people imagine that leaving the poor undernourished, uneducated and unhealthy represents the survival of the fittest. Instead, that approach undermines the success of that neighborhood. The unhealthy lives that result create a pathway for our constant enemies, viruses and bacteria.

So if we thrive as a result of an interaction of competition and cooperation, what does that look like? Let’s look at people playing tennis. They cooperate around a set of rules. Within that cooperation, vigorous competition is able to flourish.

A more complex example comes with our distribution of food. Supermarkets form cooperative chains and also compete against other chains. There is enough law-abiding cooperation for supermarket chains to usually stick by safety rules, have use-by dates and put accurate information on packets. However there is also fairly strong competition around prices and advertising.
Sometimes the competition becomes too fierce as when Coles in Australia lowered milk prices so much that the dairy industry was damaged.

We humans have competed so successfully with other species that we are in danger of destroying the wilderness which generates the oxygen that we breathe and lowers the temperatures that enable us to survive. We need to cooperate with the other species if we want to survive ourselves.

This interaction between cooperation and competition is never perfectly balanced so it creates a kind of controlled restlessness and a creative dissatisfaction. At its best, it is a kind of creative energy.

So my interpretation of Charles Darwin’s theory of the survival of the fittest is that, for us mammals, an important component of our ability to compete for survival is our ability to both cooperate with and compete with one another and other species.

[Notarabbit]

Survival of the best is the best term to use it’s a rule that you can’t escape even within the sheltered government ran society in the business world for example, better ran businesses succeed better than poorer ran businesses etc… smart people outsmarting dumb people etc…

[ScottWilliamson]

Why has my enormous manhood helped me survive evolution? It's been a curse. :-(