Natural Selection Isn’t the Whole Story - Dr. Richard Watson, University of Southampton

Is competition really all there is? If you take the word of those
who insist that natural selection is solely responsible for all
of life on earth, then yes. The story goes that competition
drives fitness, that maximizing fitness ensures survival, and
that survival ensures your traits become fixed in the population.
But that's not the whole story. On the other side of the
competitive evolutionary coin, there is natural induction, a
cooperative process that balances the competitive aspects of
natural selection. 


On this week's episode, Dr. Richard Watson uses the language of
machine learning and artificial intelligence to make a compelling
about how our understanding of evolution has misunderstood a key
point: The success of individuals and groups depends on
cooperation as much as it does on competition. 


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