Seeing beyond ‘survival of the fittest’

Schoolyard lessons from fungi managers

   Finally free of the torrent of college football games over the last few weeks, I take to my keyboard again to play some mental selections for you. First of all, the sore notes of ‘Survival of the Fittest.’ We hear that phrase and like Pavlov’s dog we bark ‘Darwin’, but that’s an erroneous sounding. It was a philosopher, Herbert Spencer, who coined th…