Will_Pearson comments on Observing Optimization - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Pearson 21 November 2008 02:43:21PM 1 point [-]

Bacteria have a form of sex. It is horizontal rather than vertical biological information transfer though. I don't know what the limits of the transfer are, but it might make sense to talk about groups of bacteria that can transfer genes between them as a species. Evolution is not a simple thing.