The theory of evolution has become completely identified with a Darwinian evolutionary drama. The two must be disentangled if the theory of evolution is ever to gain acceptance. Darwin's War of Nature. The Malthusian Oscillation. Argues that all the main components of the Darwinian system were contained in Malthus' Essay on Population.
Competition argues that direct competition is improbable in the natural world.
The Ethical Consequences of Competition discusses the various responses to the ethical implications of Darwin's competitive Struggle For Existence. Reproduction Idle Theory is a physical model of life in which metabolism is primary. Genetically-trained biologists, by contrast, always seem to equate life with reproduction. The reproductive Imperative 1 suggests that biologists may equate life with reproduction because microbiological practice is to determine whether cultures are alive if they are able to reproduce. The Reproductive Imperative 2 contrasts Francois Jacob's view that life is above all reproductive life with James Lovelock's view that living creatures maintain their integrity.