I was in another thread and someone made the comment “literally the only motivating force for any life is actually genetic material’s incentive to propagate itself.”
And that got me thinking, “yeah, I obviously know that the ultimate end goal for an organism is passing on its genes… but why?” Why does that matter, or rather why is it a goal for genetic material to propagate and perpetuate itself? What is the “incentive” here and WHY is that an incentive?
In: Biology
* It’s basically what happens after a while.
* The things that randomly mutated to be good at passing their genes down, passed their genes down.
* And the things the randomly mutated to be bad at it didn’t.
* So after enough time, you’re mostly left with only things that are good at passing down genes.
* Sure every now and then something mutates and loses that ability, but by definition it doesn’t pass that bad trait on so it just disappears again.
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