Evolution and Species-Principle

The everyday expression 'to evolve' can be defined as 'to become more complex', or, equivalently, 'to become more comprehensive'.  Hence, as the example of the transition from fish to amphibian illustrates, this sense of 'evolution' has more in common with the Darwinian concept of the origination of a species than does what 'micro-evolution' connotes in the theory, i. e. adaptive variation.  Accordingly, that the everyday experience of the transition to a greater complexity, e. g.  an increase in knowledge, is often enjoyed for its own sake, indicates that so, too, might the origination of a species be not a means to a further end.  Thus, by subordinating Evolution to Survival, Darwin loses sight of the discovery of a novel fundamental Species-Principle that, like Nietzsche's Will to Power, supplants the traditional Will to Live.