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Re:The Beetle That Heads for the ‘Back Door’ When Eaten by a... by NoZebra120vClip on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @09:31AM (#36970646)
How do you define and measure evolutionary "success"? By what mechanisms is it achieved?
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Re:The Beetle That Heads for the ‘Back Door’ When Eaten by a... by thaumasiotes on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @09:52AM (#36970922)
For a cross-species comparison, you'd usually measure evolutionary success in terms of biomass. More is better.
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Re:The Beetle That Heads for the ‘Back Door’ When Eaten by a... by praptak on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @10:40AM (#36971568)
You don't. It is not even agreed upon that evolution optimizes <<something>>.

And even if you agree that evolution is an optimization process, attempts to define its objective function run into problems with tautology and circular definitions once you move beyond simple examples.

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Re:The Beetle That Heads for the ‘Back Door’ When Eaten by a... by mongol on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @01:01PM (#36973598)
It is described by Dawkins et al.
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Re:The Beetle That Heads for the ‘Back Door’ When Eaten by a... by lproven on Friday August 04, 2023 @07:17AM (#36998343)
More successful == gets to have more surviving offspring.

That is the TL;DR. He, she or it that has the most babies, wins.

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