Survival and Reproduction

The best scientific meaning of fitness I can give is: to be able to produce offspring’s, hence the most offspring you produce the fitter the organism is. Heres were natural selection and survival of the fittest come into play, they are always proportional and relative to each other. Natural selection is how through time a species has a gene change (or mutation), this change might give the organism something beneficial like spikes, wings, ext that will protect it and its offspring’s in a certain way. Spike on a tree could protect its seed, poison on a snake could allow him to get more food, color on a butterfly could scare insects away, “the animals evolved to achieve rapid movement” (pg 47), we could go on forever on how your future offspring is produced more efficiently. So Natural Selection is the key to the survival of the fittest and evolution they all work on the same level.

As computers Dawkins say we live by a set of rules, our advantage is our brains and the ability to learn. We “repeat anything that is followed by one of the nice things [sweet taste, smiling child, mild temperature…]” ( pg57) and we stop doing things that conclude in a set of bad things. Learning is in a simplistic way the ability to benefit us, of course there is more to that but the basics are simply and Dawkins says this is in our genes. If the set of good and bad things are in our genes where would selfish acts that lead to beneficial things fall under? Is it not true that having money (the ability to feed yourself…) would be a beneficial thing for us, only our judgment will be able to decide what selfishness is and if it is ever good or bad but it will always be just a perspective.