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While the individual interactions between organisms are indeed local, sexual evolution precisely attempts to work around this limitation with selection pressure
by hypertele-Xii 5y ago
While the individual interactions between organisms are indeed local, sexual evolution precisely attempts to work around this limitation with selection pressure for diversity.
That is to say, sexual evolution increasingly approximates a globally optimal process, as an aggregate system of autonomous agents.
The Internet is also not actually a global network. It's just lots of local connections between two computers. Yet the effect approaches a global network.
- yunohn 5y agoYou use a lot of jargon, but I’m not sure where you ended up. It seems obvious to me (from logic and observation) that most animals don’t have global connectivity (despite your comparison to internet meshes), and obviously evolve differently across the world.
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoThere is genetic exchange between different animals from across the world, which is a mechanism that has evolved presumably specifically because it strengthens global resolve. It's entirely non-obvious but genetic material propagates through many pathways, including but not limited to sexual reproduction. Virii, for example, transfer genes between species. Bacteria have plasmids, rings of genes they can literally just give to other bacteria.