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by bathMarm0t 2559 days ago
"the the link between merit and (cladogenetic)[1] outcome(s) is(are) tenuous and indirect at best."

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium

In new and fertile territory (random) variations that offer small (unforseeable) advantage can and often do dogpile until total victory is achieved, but I would hardly say the rest of the field flounders. Populations of 1%er's begetting the next don.