Comment Re:Darwin says... (Score 1) 428
Actually Darwin's evolution means that those best adapted to the environment survive, not necessarily the strongest.
I guess I don't understand the distinction. Both those concepts in this context sound the same to me.
Really? It's not hard to understand.
Say you drop some apes into a place where the only food source is growing in the bottoms of holes 3 feet deep. Some of the apes are really strong, but others have really long arms. The strong ones are going to have a rough time getting food, the long armed ones are better suited for this environment. The strong ones will survive for a while by stealing food from the long armed ones, but eventually they'll lose if conditions don't change.
In this context, the supposedly more fit would be buzzing at a different frequency. It's not at all obvious that those mosquitoes would also be stronger, or even more efficient at anything - there's almost certainly an evolutionary reason why most mosquitoes buzz at the frequencies they do. Ones that buzz at a different frequency could be far less efficient flyers, or they could be easier to swat, easier to hear and thus less stealthy, etc.