> Darwin's mistake — a mistake the correction of which leaves us still with a satisfactorily falsifiable implication - is perhaps consequent upon his employment of the expressions 'natural selection' or 'survival of the fittest', rather than his own ultimately preferred alternative 'natural preservation' (Darwin, F., II p. 346). Certainly it cannot be either too early or too often emphasized that natural selection is no more a kind of (conscious and grounded) selection than Bombay duck is a species of duck. Nor, of course, are genes, or plants, or any organisms other than specimens of certain higher animals, ever engaged, whether selfishly or unselfishly, in any conscious or chosen pursuit of anything. — Antony Flew

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