Caledonian2 comments on Natural Selection's Speed Limit and Complexity Bound - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Caledonian2 05 November 2007 12:59:37AM 0 points [-]

But mammals have many ways of weeding out harmful variations, from antler fights to spermatozoa competition. And that's just if they have the four children. The provided 1 bit/generation figure isn't an upper bound, either.

Life spends a lot of time in non-equilibrium states as well, and those are the states in which evolution can operate most quickly.