Message-Id: <199706110022.UAA02672@brickbat9.mindspring.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 20:25:55 -0500
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: bbenzon@mindspring.com (Bill Benzon)
Subject: search space
>There is an important reason why evolution seems to 'prefer' code -
>it allows a highly complex phenotype to be represented and modified by
>a substantially simpler genotype. This has the advantage of simplifying
>the problem of evolution (smaller search-space), and reducing the no.
>of generations needed to evolve to fit a changing environment.
>
I like this a lot.
William L. Benzon 201.217.1010
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