(October 24, 2012 at 11:53 am)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: Fitness really has very little to do with survival... unlike luck. All that being mighty will do, is increase your changes of surviving something that probably should have killed you (example: you're just barely fast enough to escape the volcanic eruption, while 90% of your species dies out.)
They get lucky and become fit. The fitness is what saves them, even if they acquire it by dumb luck. This is referring to a species as a whole, over multiple generations. In a single generation, your analogy would apply better, as oposed to multiple generations. Maybe we mean the same thing and just worded it differently...
