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Re: Problems with Darwin's theory
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Date: 
Wed, 31 Jan 2001 04:19:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Franks writes:
[...]
Studies into Artificial Life have shown that Darwinian evolution can work by
having relatively large periods of inactivity, with small periods of genetic
recombination.
[...]

And the improvements often come in big jumps -- or lots of little jumps.  It
happens when a gene successfully strays away from the local maxima that it's
been stuck on and climbs to a new local maxima.  In n-dimensional space, there
are very few peaks and troughs relative to the number of saddles.  If you look
at the eigenvalues of the matrix when a gene begins to stray away, some really
interesting velocities show up and you can even make predictions from that as
to how far it will climb up the next hill.  Fascinating stuff, that genetic
hillclimbing.  :-)  :-)

--Todd



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  Re: Problems with Darwin's theory
 
Hi, (...) If you think of the number of animals that have existed over the previous X million years, and the small fraction of these whose remains have survived to exist as fossils, and the smaller fraction of these which actually have been found (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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