1) Fitness as you describe it provides stasis rather than continual adaptation. In other words, it is more useful for an organism to continuously express variation (limit testing), in search of new niches than it is to create a vulnerability to shocks by stasis.
Source date (UTC): 2019-05-25 23:42:03 UTC
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A similar question is why sexual reproduction has outperformed asexual reproduction. (This has connections to machine learning.) https://t.co/UOJpGsAXHs
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