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Natural selection operates as a decentralized selection mechanism: no centralized authority determines which organisms survive, and the population with the most adaptable and heritable traits gains a natural comparative advantage without any centralized mechanism.

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The natural selection of the most adaptable and survivable population char- acteristics materializes without a centralized mechanism.

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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Preface to (2021), Natural Decentralization, p. 7
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Preface to (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782191

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biological evolution as an analogy for decentralized systems

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mechanismsupport: argueddecentralizationinstitutional-design

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