Fitness Maximization

Fitness maximization is an idea from biology and evolutionary theory suggesting that living organisms are naturally driven to maximize their reproductive success—the number of healthy, surviving offspring they produce. This concept explains how behaviors and traits evolve because those that increase an organism’s chances of passing on genes become more common over generations. Essentially, organisms are "wired" to pursue actions that improve their likelihood of having successful descendants, balancing survival, reproduction, and resource use to optimize their overall evolutionary success.