Re:Climb Mount Improbable: Evolvable Critters in JavaScript
by earthboundkid on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:06AM
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Has anyone done statistics on whether horses today are faster than eg in the 19th century (when records ought to be good)? Is it increasing linearly or asymptotically? Are horses running (ha) into fundamental physical problems preventing further evolution?
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Re:Climb Mount Improbable: Evolvable Critters in JavaScript
by 082349872349872 on Saturday May 30, 2020 @02:22AM
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Asymptotically, I believe. There were a some people a few decades ago who tried to use training methods which had improved human running times, only to discover that horses' cardiovascular systems were not the same bottleneck that humans' had been. (bottleneck is with tendons and bones; racing breeds are already morphologically quite different from the wild types)