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The building blocks of life are far more complicated and are being run with enormous populations. 1m generations are less than 100 years for a lot of bacteria a
by MaximumYComb 7y ago
The building blocks of life are far more complicated and are being run with enormous populations. 1m generations are less than 100 years for a lot of bacteria and the population they are working with is stupidly large.
I just tested one of my GA's and it's solving a logic problem with 3k pop, 30 children per gen, in 1-2k generations. If I make it 300 children per gen it solves in 150-300 generations. 1500 children is solving in 30-50 generatikons. Now imagine 5 x 10^30 pop with 10^30 children per generation, over millions of generations.
- yters 7y agoWhere do you get those population sizes from? My research shows on the order of 10^18 organisms on earth. And the shortest generation time is on the order of minutes for bacteria. As we go up the complexity scale to higher animals reproduction time drops drastically. If its just a matter of reproduction cycles, bacteria should be more advanced than humans. How does this efficiency jump happen where suddenly we only need a few offspring over the course of decades to outpaced the evolution of much more fecund populations? Additionally, humans should be evolving at a blinding rate with each new generation compared to bacteria. The whole thing doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
- MaximumYComb 7y agoI googled "number of bacteria in the world" and the number is around 5 * 10^30. I mean, there are 7 * 10^9 humans and each human has trillions (10^12) bacteria, so the human population + bacteria in the body totals over 20^22 living organisms alone.
- yters 7y agoEven so my point remains. Why do bacteria seem significantly less complex than humans, yet have an extremely greater rate of evolution?