There’s no inherent optimal state for a set of genes under natural selection. Natural selection produces cumulative effects which play on each other, but there’

There’s no inherent optimal state for a set of genes under natural selection. Natural selection produces cumulative effects which play on each other, but there’s no goal or intention in this process. Is it more likely for some processes to be favored? Maybe, depends on the set of genes and environmental conditions, but there are always epigenetic factors which will introduce differences, which makes evolutionary development more a random process than a stochastic one.