The good of the species in evolution?

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The video uses excerpts (quote use for education) from:

  1. a lecture by ecologist and evolutionary biologist Prof. Stephen C. Stearns of Yale University on the mechanism of natural selection and evolution of adaptation.
  2. the audiobook "River of Genes" by biologist and zoologist Prof. Richard Dawkins, published by Orion Publishing Group, as narrated by the author.
  3. the academic textbook for ecologists "Life and Evolution of the Biosphere" by the ecologist and biologist Prof. January Weiner.

As the eminent evolutionist Prof. Feodosiy Grigoryevich Dobzhansky said, "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution," so the question must be asked whether biological evolution works for the good or in the interest of any species? Or does evolution work for the good of individuals themselves, increasing their welfare? Are natural selection involves organisms trying to adapt or gives organisms what they need? Is there any such observed mechanism?

Such claims can often be found in publications and conversations of conventional beekeepers, neo tree-beekeepers, so called "natural" beekeepers, "darwinian", treatment-free beekeepers, lovers of various bees or those who preach the idea of returning to specifically understood "nature".

Examples of activists of so called "natural" beekeeping and good of the bees advocade propagating the idea that natural selection or even the whole evolution, excluding human activity, works in the interest or good of the honey bee specie: Torben Schiffer: https://beenature-project.com/WebRoot/Store2/Shops/6aa71639-792d-4a95-9e8c-00453bab9a49/MediaGallery/Article.pdf David Heaf: https://www.naturalbeekeepingtrust.org/natural-selection

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