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The greatest violence done to Darwin’s idea is the word "fitness." In a gym, fitness means abs and endurance. In pure Darwinism,

The theory of evolution through natural selection has had far-reaching impacts on modern biology: pure darwin

In the end, the Darwinian view is one of stark beauty. It is the beauty of complexity arising from simplicity, of order emerging from chaos, all governed by a blind, indifferent, yet profoundly creative law: the preservation of favorable variations in the struggle for life. The greatest violence done to Darwin’s idea is

Consider the peacock. A massive, vibrant tail is a liability. It slows escape from tigers and requires enormous energy to grow. By a logical standard, it is "unfit." Yet, peahens are obsessed with it. The male with the loudest, most cumbersome tail gets the most mates. Therefore, the "tail gene" is supremely fit, regardless of the tiger. Consider the peacock

Pure Darwin does not ask why the deer was slow. It does not feel pity. It simply records the result: the slow gene leaves the pool.