# Evolutionary Success Depends on the Creation of Objective Knowledge Both in science and in biological evolution, evolutionary success depends on the creation and survival of objective knowledge, which in biology is called [adaptation](Adapted.md). That is, the ability of a theory or gene to survive in a niche is not a haphazard function of its structure but depends on whether enough true and useful information about the niche is implicitly or explicitly encoded there. --- Date: 20241018 Links to: [Fabric of Reality](Fabric%20of%20Reality.md) pg 69 Tags: References: * []()