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« on: March 30, 2008, 07:27:40 PM »
I was not sure whether a topic like this already existed, and I couldn't find one, so I decided to devote my official second topic on this forum to the issue of evolution and population decline. First of all, I've had a sim running about 50 hours now and I've noticed that overall, average mutations increase as population increases. This makes sense. I've also noticed that with decreases, the relationship is the same, which also makes sense. My dillema is this: How could one expect to see evolutionary changes in a population that remains relatively stagnant? Furthermore, how could a ".totalmyspecies bot" evolve in a way that doesn't lead to the aforementioned "stagnation"? Does it just take a VERY VERY long time?? Perhaps I'm still unfamiliar with this
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas about this and if there are any predictions on the evolutionary patterns/cycle, and things like that. EricL, your 1000 zerbot write-up still astounds me, and was very helpful: Did you save a long-term graphs on that sim? I was thinking about doing an evosim and keeping full record of all of the data to get an idea of the long-term patterns, if such patterns even exist.
Thanks in advance,
Asterixx