See Darwin out on Wiktionary
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"text": "Ah, that's intent again. Selection pressure darwins out that which is not best fitted to survive, but a new mutation is by definition yet to be filtered in this way, so all bets are off :-)",
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"text": "I know you're not meant to cut toward yourself, and that fatal instinct should have been Darwined out by now, but it does provide a small “geometric design error” component to my injury story, a point my attorney might well use, should we decide later to sue the human body factory.",
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