Natural Selection
Roles: organism, environment, variation, selection-pressure, fitness, adaptation, generation
The mechanism by which differential reproductive success drives population change over generations. Structurally compelling because it produces design-like outcomes without a designer — variation is blind, selection is not. Frequently borrowed to explain markets, ideas, and technologies, though the mapping often smuggles in teleology that the original frame lacks.
As Source Frame (1)
- Survival of the Fittest → competition