>>11751066>It's survival of the least unfitThis isn't true, a trait that confers a massive reproductive advantage or advantage in resource competition will proliferate quite rapidly under the correct circumstances and can easily edge out other competing sets of alleles coding for similar but relatively maladaptive traits. Direct competition and adaptation in response to competition, both to mitigate and dominate, is ubiquitous though most mutations that are not purged immediately are neutral and often tend to only later in some rare instances prove to be useful.
