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Comment author: buybuydandavis 19 August 2012 01:04:10AM 2 points [-]

Since organizations don't have offspring, classical natural selection can't be occurring.

Natural selection can occur without offspring. Natural selection is just having differential kill rates for differing features.

It's conceivable that ...

Yes. Conceivable. The major counter forces are the ability of the first organization to crowd out newcomers by starving them for resources, or infect newcomers with their corruption.