[MD] Is it serious?

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Platt] 


> I...wonder why life forms (genes) have an urge to survive. 
  
Start with the senario that 1/3 of the genes in an environment have the urge to 
survive, 1/3 don't care & 1/3 have the urge to self-destruct.  Assuming all 
reproduce at the same rate, after 1 generation, the ratio of the respective 
genes will be 2:1:0, for generation +2, it will be 4:1:0,...for generation +n, it will be 
  n 

> I...wonder why life forms (genes) have an urge to survive. 
  
Start with the senario that 1/3 of the genes in an environment have the urge to 
survive, 1/3 don't care & 1/3 have the urge to self-destruct. Assuming all 
reproduce at the same rate, after 1 generation, the ratio of the respective 
genes will be 2:1:0, for generation +2, it will be 4:1:0,...for generation +n, it will be 
  n 

2 :1:0. 
  n 
2   becomes a large number very quickly. 

Craig