[MD] MOQ and the Future: An Inquiry into Usefulness

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Platt] 
> Why does hereditary work to insure survival? 


Suppose there's an organism with 2 predators: one POWERFUL but slow, 
 the other FAST & weak.  Suppose further there are 4 combinations of genes: 
1) fight POWERFUL & fight FAST 
2) fight POWERFUL & flee FAST 

3) flee POWERFUL & fight FAST 

4) flee POWERFUL & flee FAST 
Those with gene 1) or 2) fall prey to P.  Those with gene 2) or 4) fall prey to F. 

The only survivor is the one with gene 3), that outruns the POWERFUL & fights off the WEAK. 

It's offspring inherit gene 3) which "works to insure survival". 
Craig