the genotype program that develips the fenotype is much more smooth and granular than a computer program. A chante un a gen does not make you to have a extra bone. It can make you to have your hand slighltly longer. or shorter.

In fact there are metalevels of selection that discard abrupt changes. For example, when females ovulate there are a strong selection where thounsands of candidate cell ovules are tested and discarded. This is one of the reasons why anomalous mutations are scarce.

2010/12/8 Mitar <mmitar@gmail.com>

Hi!

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Alberto G. Corona <agocorona@gmail.com> wrote:
> But programs are non lineal.

And DNK is? I doubt. ;-)

I think the approach is valid, it simulates what is happening in
nature (random insertions, deletions, changes, translations, copies,
etc, without any "higher" meaning and guiding). Only problem is that
people often do not want to wait millions of years for evolution of
programs to achieve their goal.

Of course mutations are only part of the story. Also combining
different parents' genes in a way to get functional offsprings is also
a question how to do with programs.

Mitar