
The French philosopher, (recently deceased) Jacques Derrida, in a very complex discourse on Rousseau in an early book called OF GRAMMATOLOGY theorized about writing as a “supplement” to identity.
When scientists talk about Natural Selection, they refer to the process through which certain heritable (passed on via DNA) characteristics are favored by the environment at a given time, leading to the proliferation of organisms that carry these characteristics. The organisms are said to be “selected” by the given environmental conditions. Likewise one can...