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The flip side is everything is being degraded by random mutation. It's like holding a large ball in place on a hill that sees frequent tremors. If the ball is
by fluidcruft 6mo ago
The flip side is everything is being degraded by random mutation.
It's like holding a large ball in place on a hill that sees frequent tremors. If the ball is still halfway up the hill it's being held in place, if it's being held in place it's still halfway up the hill. It might be considered a tautology if you're only working with symbols and ignore all the mechanistics.
- astrobe_ 6mo ago> The flip side is everything is being degraded by random mutation "degraded"? Aren't random mutations precisely one of the core mechanism of adaptation?
- MarkusQ 6mo agoBut most of them are still deleterious. Remember, all improvements are changes, but most changes aren't improvements. The trick that makes evolution works is this: out of lots of random changes, most of which are harmful, the harmful ones tend to be weeded out and the useful ones tend to spread.