Will to Power and Evolution

The predominance of the more brutish connotations of the term 'power' has obscured that Nietzsche's Will to Power is a significant and innovative Vitalistic rival to the traditional Will to Live principle.  For, as governed by perpetual "self-overcoming", consisting in a "will to procreate or impulse towards . . . the higher, more distant, more manifold" (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 'Of Self-Overcoming'), Life is essentially a process of Growth, not one of mere Survival, as tradition has it.  Furthermore, the process includes the "development of ever higher. . . more comprehensive states", i. e. the "enhancement of the type 'man.'" (Beyond Good and Evil, #257)  Thus, the Will to Power is also a principle of Evolution, one that is more inclusive and more consistent than Darwin's, which explains only some phenomena, e. g. the origin of a species, and is ultimately subordinated to the Survival principle.