<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Natural selection operates on behaviors and... > Natural selection operates on behaviors and cultures too: strategies that navigate reality tend to propagate, while strategies that repeatedly collide with reality lose territory. Science is civilization's method for making that selection less bloody. **Source:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]], [[research/AI-Tech Doomers Publication/preimages/2026-09-17-article-route/articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Natural selection operates on behaviors and cultures too: strategies that navigate reality tend to propagate, while strategies that repeatedly collide with reality lose territory. Science is civilization's method for making that selection less bloody.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-natural-selection-operates-selection-less-bloody ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->