Decius comments on Does evolution select for mortality? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Decius 27 February 2013 06:04:45PM 0 points [-]

If ... there weren't any selectable variants that ....

Exactly- There have never been selectable variants that are immortal (or even nearly so). Whether that is because immortality is hard (unlikely to result from random drift) or not is irrelevant for the purposes of natural selection if it never happens.