Uploaded November 2012 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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This is a video about universal reproduction.

Universal Darwinism can be conceptually divided into:

* Universal selection,
* Universal reproduction ...and...
* Universal variation.

Universal selection is the best known of these concepts. Many people recognize that waves causing pebbles on a beach to be sorted by size is a type of filtering process which involves natural selection. I've made a previous video about universal selection. This video is about the even less well-known process of universal reproduction.

Transcript: alife.co.uk/essays/universal_reproduction