/sci/ - Science & Math

The first idea needed is that of natural selection, most people regard natural selection simply as the mechanism by wich animals speciate and diversify, but actually it is a very general mechanism. It is a general algorithm that can be aplied to animals, ideas, strategies, ... The only thing you need is 1) a metric, in this way you can tell wich organisms are close or far in an evolutionary scale. 2) probabilities telling the "location" of the offspring of each organism. 3) an environment where some of the organisms die and others live.

The basic idea is the following, you have an organism A, it reproduces B, C, D. All of these are points in a "map", the more genetic dissimilar the points, the greater their distance. Each point either dies or survives according to their placement in the "map". As time evolves, the points will reach evolutionary equilibrium in the environment.