FAVORS “ARRIVAL OF THE FREQUENT” NOT SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. —“Study demonstr

http://phys.org/news/2014-02-evolutionary-important-success.htmlEVOLUTION FAVORS “ARRIVAL OF THE FREQUENT” NOT SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.

—“Study demonstrates evolutionary ‘fitness’ is not the most important determinant of success – “By modeling populations over long timescales, the study showed that the ‘fitness’ of their traits was not the most important determinant of success. Instead, the most genetically available mutations dominated the changes in traits. The researchers found that the ‘fittest’ simply did not have time to be found, or to fix in the population over evolutionary timescales. The findings suggest that life on Earth today may not have come about by ‘survival of the fittest’, but rather by the ‘arrival of the frequent’.”–