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| Quote (Henry J @ June 19 2009,16:16) | | Quote | | Of course, there's a big difference between using models to analyze how particular aspects of evolution work and trying to model the entire process well enough to say whether it can occur. |
Well, that's just being picky! :p
But yeah, if populate size is allowed to go way up, then the simulation would have to deal with food shortages (i.e., fitness would drop across the board if population gets too large for the food supply).
Henry |
I don't mean just allowing it to grow willy nilly - that is not realistic, either. But if they want to claim 'most realistic' then it seems to me employing non-universal constraints negates that claim.
I also gather that while deleterious mutations are allowed to accumulate and not reduce, that beneficials are allowed to be lost. Is that correct?
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