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Animate as opposed to inanimate matter has had the unique propensity to grow more complex and more adaptively responsive to environmental change over the hundreds of millions of years in which its existence on earth has been recorded. Its increasingly adaptive responsiveness is the crux of its endurance and evolution. Genetic mutation and natural selection have, since the time of Darwin, been seen as the dual mechanisms responsible for the increasing adaptation, explaining how a species develops and adapts to nature with augmenting efficiency. The process is slow and requires millions of years. Even the highly developed behavioral patterns and complex societies of insects are explicable in terms of natural selection if account is taken of the brief generational and maturational time and the large number of individuals produced in each generation.
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Kety, S.S. (1982). The Evolution Of Concepts Of Memory. In: Beckman, A.L. (eds) The Neural Basis of Behavior. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6302-6_5
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