But evolution cannot select the color of my eyes based on advantages to you.

When evolution selects its agents, it does so at a cost.

Should any side gain advantage in the short term, evolution would select against the signal or the response.

But for humans there is an adaptive value - a quality that evolution will select for - in living well beyond reproductive age.

The answer is yes, because evolution selects proteins that help an organism survive and reproduce.

For instance, the duplicated version of the protein should still be functional, since otherwise evolution would quickly select against such proteins.

Because of this, evolution selects against synnecrosis and it is uncommon in nature.

Biologists think that evolution probably selected against cannibalism as a way to avoid such infections (among other things).

Hamilton noted that what evolution ultimately selects are genes, not groups or species.

It is a rare and necessarily short-lived condition as evolution selects against it.