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Micro evolution vs Macro evolution

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Numsgil:
Incidentally, this has a lot to do with why something like sex in Darwinbots is so hard.  If you only allow breeding between "species" it begs the question of how you define species.  If you allow breeding between any individuals, you end up with veggies with strictly animal DNA.

Houshalter:
In reality, you can mix any two species dna, but they will die or be sterile. Maybe you should have a similiar thing in darwinbots where you just randomly mix basepairs and if they are to different, the offspring will die. Notice I said basepairs, not genes. If you mix genes you could still get a working bot, but you also have love bots and how do you mix to different genes that are similiar without throwing away a gene.

Anyways, ask any creationist and they will define macro-evolution as an increase in "information".

ikke:
In reality genes of a ''sub'' species co-evolve until the point where mixing with the other population  breaks up co-evolved genes and replaces them with alien combinations that have reduced chance of survival (of fertilization, survival or reproduction). If we want to simulate in DB we would have to define genes and compare BP wise, not allowing reproduction or cross over if less than x% of bp match.

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