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To my way of thinking, this makes a ton of sense.

I don't think Darwin got it right. It's not "survival of the fittest". It's "survival of that which can find its place in an ecosystem".

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I think it's "Survival of the Fittest Ecosystem," actually. So not like, "Humans are fittest," but instead, "Human eating corn cow sheep soy etc. while building machines is fittest"

It's interesting how selection acts at different levels. Individuals are reasonably good at enslaving their cells so they cooperate (when they don't, they get cancer).

But cooperation between individuals is much less effective, not to mention between species. An ecosystem is incapable of enforcing a contract between species to prevent a selfish species from destroying the whole thing.

That's basically what it meant in the first place. It's "fittest" in the older and broader sense of "fit": suitability for a task, role, or purpose.

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