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There is reason to believe that it's true except in exceptional situations, and this is covered in the article: Theoretical calculations apparently indicate th
by moyix 13y ago
There is reason to believe that it's true except in exceptional situations, and this is covered in the article:
Theoretical calculations apparently indicate that in a changing environment, the fitness gap between the current allele and its alternatives will be small and large gaps exponentially rare19; this is as one would expect from the market analogue (the bigger the arbitrage, the faster it will be exploited).
- stiff 13y agoI understand this research to say: if there exists a simple mutation that is hugely beneficial, it will spread fast. This does not mean every beneficial change to the DNA we as intelligent beings can come up with can be expected to have most likely already happened in the course of evolution. The article acknowledges this at one point, but some of the further discussion in uninformed by this issue.