> So ... to return back to my original point - if the space of viable
> phenotypes were densely populated (designed that way as Glenn said in
> his article) so there were caverns of viability connected by viable
> paths, then evolutionary search can work, and indeed the neutrality
> idea would improve the efficiency of that search by spreading out
> over neutral networks.
If much of the theoretical space is significantly worse than the
region of interest, this may help the search work more efficiently,
because many suboptimal options can quickly be eliminated. This also
means that a uniform sampling of the space is not a very good
approach.
-- Dr. David Campbell 425 Scientific Collections Building Department of Biological Sciences Biodiversity and Systematics University of Alabama, Box 870345 Tuscaloosa AL 35487-0345 USAReceived on Tue May 31 15:42:00 2005
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