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  So if it's not survival of the fittest individual and it's not survival of the fittest group, then what is it? The Beginning Life Well, to explain that, I want to take you on a little journey, all the way back to the beginnings of the Earth.  Where we are now, there is nothing. Well, not really nothing, but nothing interesting. There are only simple things, like these blobs. This one might be a carbon dioxide molecule, or it might be cyanide. We don't know for sure what they are, but we do know that these compounds are very simple. So for now, they'll just be blobs floating around our void. In fact, much of what we'll encounter along our journey here are just hypotheses. A lot of Earth's early history is still a mystery, so keep that in mind.  Now, every so often, our blobs get a surplus of energy, maybe from a ray of UV light or a nearby hot source. This is the first major upgrade to our void, excess energy, as it allows our blobs to interact with each other....

  So if natural selection is all about selfish individuals, why do we observe so much altruism in nature?  The survival is of the species that can adapt.  I think generally the species.  For the survival of the species.  So it's the survival of the species.  Okay. Yeah, you're right. But survival of the fittest species or the fittest group also doesn't work.  I mean, think about what you need for natural selection to occur. You need something that replicates itself many times over, creating copies, and then you need a pruning process, whereby some of those copies get eliminated and some thrive to go on and create more copies. The problem with groups or species is that they don’t typically make copies of themselves.  So you almost never get copies of groups fighting other copies of groups to see which groups win out. So if it's not survival of the fittest individual and it's not survival of the fittest group, then what is it? The Beginning Life Wel...

  I saw an interesting ads last night. I t was just I was watching basketball game. I saw something for Taco Bells was saying that you can get  their plac the PlayStation a new Playstation system before it even comes out on the market but through a contest  so that's a way that people someone has it and now there's so much hypee on like your friend who has it based on  you and not the rest of the Market's not available to them so it's like a coveted thing. Right, Absolutely and it's interesting that they picked a gaming  console.  So I think that's very relevant to what we're talking about definitely. That's what their  target market is because whoever eats for that fast food is more like I guess teenagers and who plays games, Teen. Yeah  it could be,  Absolutely we need to understand all of that. We need to understand the consumer profile. W ho is our target market and we say who is our target market yes part of that is is what we're trying ...