Firstly, evolutionary process must be distinguished from its consequences; differential survival in the past does not necessarily mean social competition now. Secondly, in biology the outcome of differential survival is the ‘interest’, and no motive is required for that interest to be maximized by a given course of action.

DEFINE: Clarifies the technical distinction between evolutionary process and its current consequences, and between biological 'interest' and conscious motive.

Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking…, loc. 463