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Originally Posted by verklingen
^ i say our goal should be quality over quantity.
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it has more so to do with the way DNA replicates itself. only DNA which is good at replicating itself, IE an organism which is reproductively succesful, gets passed onto the next generation.
thus through natural selection, DNA creates organisms that are the best at reproducing themselves, and if they werent good at reproducing they would die off
in the animal world this is extremely evident because most non-human animals behavior is genetically programmed, unlike humans which rely heavily on extra-genetic information. thus animals act explicitly as if their sole purpose is to replicate genetic information because simply genetic information is why they exist in the first place and they are essentially programmed to behave in a way that hopefully should lead them to reproduce.