Bret Weinstein

Your fitness could be high based on how many offspring you produced, or it could be zero based on the ultimate outcome of what happened to all of your descendants.

Your fitness could be high based on how many offspring you produced, or it could be zero based on the ultimate outcome of what happened to all of your descendants.

My claim is your fitness was actually zero, and you should have adjusted what you did to increase the likelihood that your population would endure whatever ultimately challenged it and not invested so much in producing your own offspring because that didn't end up being productive. So there are lots of cases where

My claim is your fitness was actually zero, and you should have adjusted what you did to increase the likelihood that your population would endure whatever ultimately challenged it and not invested so much in producing your own offspring because that didn't end up being productive. So there are lots of cases where

My claim is your fitness was actually zero, and you should have adjusted what you did to increase the likelihood that your population would endure whatever ultimately challenged it and not invested so much in producing your own offspring because that didn't end up being productive. So there are lots of cases where

Producing more offspring and increasing your reproductive success is not actually a key to increasing your fitness, as I would instantiate it. And it is fitness that selection is targeted at. But when we pretend that fitness is something you should be able to measure, we screw up Darwinism. So that's another one of these correctives.

Producing more offspring and increasing your reproductive success is not actually a key to increasing your fitness, as I would instantiate it. And it is fitness that selection is targeted at. But when we pretend that fitness is something you should be able to measure, we screw up Darwinism. So that's another one of these correctives.

Producing more offspring and increasing your reproductive success is not actually a key to increasing your fitness, as I would instantiate it. And it is fitness that selection is targeted at. But when we pretend that fitness is something you should be able to measure, we screw up Darwinism. So that's another one of these correctives.

I think the problem is the instinct that we should be able to measure it. It's not that kind of parameter. And I think it's perfectly fine to say reproductive success tends to be very closely correlated with fitness. And we can measure reproductive success.

I think the problem is the instinct that we should be able to measure it. It's not that kind of parameter. And I think it's perfectly fine to say reproductive success tends to be very closely correlated with fitness. And we can measure reproductive success.

I think the problem is the instinct that we should be able to measure it. It's not that kind of parameter. And I think it's perfectly fine to say reproductive success tends to be very closely correlated with fitness. And we can measure reproductive success.

But we have to recognize that when you imagine that they are synonymous, any place where producing more offspring is counterproductive to getting into the future, we will be confused by, and we are confused by them.

But we have to recognize that when you imagine that they are synonymous, any place where producing more offspring is counterproductive to getting into the future, we will be confused by, and we are confused by them.

But we have to recognize that when you imagine that they are synonymous, any place where producing more offspring is counterproductive to getting into the future, we will be confused by, and we are confused by them.

My advisor, I believe, nailed the answer to that question.

My advisor, I believe, nailed the answer to that question.

My advisor, I believe, nailed the answer to that question.

My advisor was a guy named Dick Alexander. He was a marvelous human being and a very insightful biologist. His argument was that human beings or our ancestors... attained a kind of ecological superiority where the most important dictator of whether or not you evolutionarily succeeded or failed was your competition with other humans.

My advisor was a guy named Dick Alexander. He was a marvelous human being and a very insightful biologist. His argument was that human beings or our ancestors... attained a kind of ecological superiority where the most important dictator of whether or not you evolutionarily succeeded or failed was your competition with other humans.

My advisor was a guy named Dick Alexander. He was a marvelous human being and a very insightful biologist. His argument was that human beings or our ancestors... attained a kind of ecological superiority where the most important dictator of whether or not you evolutionarily succeeded or failed was your competition with other humans.