[[Uhuh. Rather than seeking an educational remedy for that basic scientific ignorance, your prefered behavior is to regurgitate self-pleasing doctrine from the temple of Y.E.D.]]
You’re a nasty little piece of work huh? You feel better about yourself now?
Having simply recognized the how the ability of viruses to splice their genetic code into a host phenotype is one of the naturally selected behaviors that enable different species of viruses to evolve so rapidly... and demonstrative great reproductive fitness in the process?
YOU BETCHA!
Funny how self-evident facts like those can short-circuit the dendrites of the fallible and uninspiring tyrant-wanabes whose favorite historical pass time is assuming dominion over the faith (and vocabulary) of others.
[Evolution]
...the scientific theory explaining the appearance of new species and varieties through the action of various biological mechanisms (such as natural selection, genetic mutation or drift, and hybridization)
Since 1950, developments in molecular biology have had a growing influence on the theory of evolution. Nature
In Darwinian evolution, the basic mechanism is genetic mutation, followed by selection of the organisms most likely to survive. Pamela WeintraubEvolution | Evolution Definition by Merriam-Webster (NOT the Y.E.D. Newspeak Dictionary)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evolution
[Fitness]
Medical Definition of fitness. : the capacity of an organism to survive and transmit its genotype to reproductively fertile offspring as compared to competing organisms; also : the contribution of an allele or genotype to the gene pool of subsequent generations as compared to that of other alleles or genotypes.
Fitness | Fitness Definition by Merriam-Webster (NOT the Y.E.D. Newspeak Dictionary)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fitness
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