>> Best at what? Replicating or stable in that environment?
>
>Why pose such a 'evolution-philosophically' tired (if not thick) and
positively
>ought-to-be past it -- or, even if it was rhetorical, so characterizable
>as distinctly retrograde rhetorical -- question!?
>
>Anyway, my EPTly exasperated answer is:
>
>Best at both - of course.

I would add -
replicating helps it become
stable in that environment
(replication here is no more
than dumping waste - not
making copies of its genome.
That was a later refinement IMO)
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