Six things Darwin never said: It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment. In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. I was a young … Continue reading Cambridge University Library