Tautologously

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a tautologous manner.

    "Any gene that behaves in such a way as to increase its own survival chances in the gene pool at the expense of its alleles will, by definition, tautologously, tend to survive."

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needlessly

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"Any gene that behaves in such a way as to increase its own survival chances in the gene pool at the expense of its alleles will, by definition, tautologously, tend to survive."

Etymology

From tautologous + -ly.

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