Joe Potter wrote:
> As Niles Eldredege points out in "Reinventing Darwin" on page 217, if
> nature is organized around the compulsion to leave as many copies of one's
> genes --- why in the heck did the mixing of genes on a 50-50 basis arise???
I suggest you read up on a computational search technique called
a "genetic algorithm". They are very simple and easy to program,
but if you have no background in programing it should also be
easy to locate a free package on the net. Once you have a GA
set up and working for a test case, try it with and without
`sexual' mixing of genes and see which way produces a healthy
population for a given `fitness function' faster.
rob.
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