What are some examples of where being best fit may not mean being the biggest, strongest, or fastest?

Answer 1

1. Birds with the right mating song will get the most mates and pass on their genes. The right song is the best fit.
2. Grasses that have their growing parts underground can grow back after the fire. Having the growing part underground is the best fit.
3. Frogs with dark colored backs blend in with the pond when viewed from above. Dark colored backs are the best fit.

Answer 2

The best conditions for life (as we know it) existing on a planet do not favor the largest stars or planets (either by weight or volume) nor the strongest gravity, nor the fastest rotating/orbiting. Biggest, strongest, and fastest in terms of astronomical bodies, are not the best fit for life.

Answer 3

In a rhesus monkey colony, the alpha males, biggest and strongest, actually father less babies than the more docile beta males. The beta males spend less time fighting and more time grooming the females so when the females are receptive to breeding, the familiar docile males are more likely to mate with them than the aggressive alpha males.

Recent DNA paternity tests done on elephant seals show that the huge aggressive males that fight and keep harems father less than 40% of the pups born to the females in their harems. The other 60% are fathered by smaller less aggressive males who mate with the females before they go to land.

Answer 4

a sloth...they don't run, they barely eat, they sleep a lot and grow moss for bugs to eat. They're not smart, have no enemies, they don't seem to care about much.