(August 29, 2016 at 3:06 am)Arkilogue Wrote: If it is incremental over time in a species as it changes to another, then it's entirely dependent on and only conveyed through the very slight changes within each individual. You cannot separate them. Evolution can only operate through individuals.
How can the "will to survive" be only present at the species level and not the individual?
I'm still waiting to hear how the will to live can reside in bacteria. But to answer your question, my point is that this is a matter of statistics. You'll reread my post in vain searching for that point where I wrote what you've attributed to me (which I've emboldened).
The scientific definition of evolution is the change in the frequency of alleles over time. That happens only in a population, and not at the individual level.
