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by latently 3330 days ago
Is fitness emergent, or fundamental? If you didn't discuss this, you should add another year to your PhD!
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SamBam 3325 days ago
"Fitness" is simply the name we give to the likelihood that an organism will have multiple generations of descendants.

This value of likelihood is an emergent phenomenon given an environment and an organism.

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latently 3318 days ago
That's not deep enough for my tastes.
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