Zachriel
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The latest from Uncommon Descent, Lee Spetner responds (briefly) to Tom Schneider
Consider an analogy with a population of words. Suppose a word can evolve by <i>random</i> point-mutation or by <i>random</i> recombination with other words in the population. If a mutant forms a valid word, it is added to the population. If not, it is ruthlessly eliminated. The population is limited to a few hundred of the longest words.
So, starting with the single-letter word "O", a population might evolve like this:
o
to
tow
row
rot
Under these conditions, can words as long as even ten-letters evolve in a reasonable period of time? Using Spetner's method, how long would it take?
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