more numerous after sufficient generations. Variation; differences in heritable traits that affect "Fitness" or the ability to survive and reproduce leading to differential survival. Quantum Darwinism appears to conform to this algorithm and thus is aptly named: Numerous copies are made of pointer states Successive interactions between pointer states and their environment reveal them to evolve and those states to survive which conform to the predictions of classical physics within the macroscopic world. This happens in a continuous, predictable manner; that is descendants inherit many of their traits from ancestor states. The analogy to the Variation principle of "simple Darwinism" does not exist since the Pointer states do not mutate and the selection by the environment is among the pointer states preferred by the environment (e.g. location states). From this view quantum Darwinism provides a Darwinian explanation at the basis of our reality, explaining the unfolding or evolution of our classical macroscopic world. Notes References S. Haroche, J.-M. Raimond, Exploring the Quantum: Atoms, Cavities, and Photons, Oxford University Press (2006), , p. 77 M. Schlosshauer, Decoherence and the Quantum-to-Classical Transition, Springer 2007, , Chapter 2.9, p. 85. External links Universal Darwinism: Quantum Darwinism American Physical Society: Quantum Darwinism Published Nature.com: Natural selection acts on the quantum world Quantum Darwinism and the Nature of Reality Zurek's Reply to Kastner's Criticism (2015) Darwinism Quantum measurement Phenomenology