Natural Selection: Survival of the Fittest....what?

1. Law of Stability

2. Replicator Replication (Genes DNA/RNA)(Can influence a trait & replicate) 

--------^^Redundancy^^-----

3. Error +/-/0 (Mutation)

  a. Spawn Rate

  b. Death Rate

  c  Replication Rate

  d.. Mutation Rate

4. Limited Resources (Resource factor)

--------^^Degeneracy^^------

Altruism benefits family members (w/ shared genes)(kin selection)

Sexual Reproduction only benefits the Sex gene (at expense of the rest)

Some genes aren't influenced by natural selection (can't affect meaningful traits)... so it's a random process (genetic drift)

Genes have no agency.  They can only affect one or many traits/ combined traits

Think of evolution at the level of the gene, not of the individual or group of individuals