How natural selection affects your finances

'MoneyWeek' article:natural selction works in nature, the world economy, and world governments.

In discussing gold's return as money in the 21st century, two vital threads holding this talk together are the concepts of evolution and natural selection. Not evolution in its controversial form - we will not be discussing biological origins, the hand of God or the stirring of the primordial soup. Rather, we are talking about evolution in its noncontroversial form, the process of change and growth that we see evidence of every day.

The American Heritage Dictionary defines 'evolution' like this: 'A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form.'

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