Reproduction and Diversification

The concept of Reproduction connotes quantitative, though not necessarily qualitative, difference.  It, thus, implies that the function of the generation of a new entity is replacement of the old.  Now, such replacement might be apt in the context of the Will to Live, in which the aim is to merely continue on as before.  But, it is not adequate to the Darwinian process of Variation that he attributes to an Evolutionary principle, and especially not to the emergence of radical variations, i. e. mutations.  So, a more comprehensive, and, thus, more analytically accurate, characterization than Reproduction, of the generation of new life, is Diversification.