Evolutionary Fitness

In evolution, fitness1 is about success at surviving and reproducing, not about exercise and strength. Of course, fitness is a relative thing. Reproductive fitness2 reflects the ability of individuals to pass on their genes to subsequent generations.

Fitness traits, also referred to as life-history traits, include measures of fertility and mortality and are complex phenotypes that are direct targets of Darwinian selection.

A genotype’s fitness depends on the environment in which the organism lives.

References

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Biology

Gender symbols as stylized molecules

And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”

(Luke 10:27) ESV

First cause gives us the origin of gender which is as elemental as the particles of which matter is composed, and as fundamental as their electric charges.

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