Charles Darwin (Ethics (Ready Reference series))
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Charles Darwin’s lifelong concern was with the natural origins of animals and plants. He knew that animal and plant breeders had modified domestic species by selecting desired variants as breeding stock. Nature, he argued, was always doing the same thing, practicing natural selection by allowing certain individuals to leave more offspring than others. Each species constantly produces more eggs, seeds, or offspring than can possibly survive; most individuals face an early death. Any heritable traits that confer some advantage in this “struggle for existence”...
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