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“makes the biosphere robust is not evolution’s propensity to maximize fitness but rather its propensity to generate less than maximally fit yet survivable variants (survival of the fit) and a realm of possibilities (sloppy fitness space) to explore. These insights have been around for more than 160 years since Darwin published the Origin of Species. And yet our modern world has been saturated with a survival-of-the-fittest mentality, which despite what many may think, is the antithesis of how nature works.”
― Daniel R. Brooks, A Darwinian Survival Guide: Hope for the Twenty-First Century