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Sharks and grass
shvarz:
This actually makes many of the Bots' previous posts much more normal. Before I thought that he was on crack :lol:
Botsareus:
... I only take legal drugs shvartz...
PurpleYouko:
You can't get very high on Advil
:D PY :D
Numsgil:
Not that any of us have tried :rolleyes: :wacko:
AZPaul:
I'll get in on this.
--- Quote ---Initially, the rates effect the entire species but each robot mutates as an individual including the rate of change of mutations.
After a few generations, each and every bot has a totally different set of mutation rates than all the others.
They are stored in an array known as "mutarray" as a subset of each robot's personal characteristics.
--- End quote ---
Why would you want to do this? Mutation rates are determined, for the most part, by environment and affect all populations and species in the same way. Only in those rare instances where a mutation has occurred in the "proofread/repair" cascade of the genome (either in the DNA itself or in the Mitocondrial RNA that make the cascade protiens) will you find a significant mutation "rate" change for the offspring of that individual, if it lives long enough to procreate. In reality, the mutated allele difference between me and my parents is not significantly different from the the mutated allele difference between me and my son. It is the sexual shuffel of whole genes that give the more significant differences. Excess radiation, mutagenic chemicals (dioxin, DDT), viral insertion etc. are the major vectors of mutation "rate" change and are environmental. Transcription error, gene slicing/splicing are internal vectors of mutation but do not show significant rates of change in their occurance from species to species let alone from individual to individual within a species. All in all the mutation rate for my sister's daughter does not differ significanly from my son's rate (except for environmental vectors).
I want to control the rate of mutation for the whole environment. By species is fine since that allows me to set a very low rate for my test Bots (allowing sexual selection to alter the population) while leaving others to mutate as a control. I do not want the internals of the hidden program changing rates on it's own. This is not real.
Ranting can feel so good. Thanks for the ear.
-P
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