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Re:Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food by astrange on Thursday September 07, 2023 @12:13AM (#37414682)
You can also evolve the ability to evolve rapidly, eg by having areas of "configuration" genes and then "code" genes with more error correction.
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Re:Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food by gus_massa on Thursday September 07, 2023 @02:04PM (#37423061)
It's not exactly what you described, but there are a few weird things. For example microsatelites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsatellite that are small repeated regions in genes, that are difficult to copy, so they have a bigger mutation rate. They can function as tweaking knots when you consider times that involve many generations.
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