07-Jun-2012, 7:57 AM
Recent studies suggest that the appendix is an important "breeding factory" for beneficial bacteria. Don't you think we would have lost it by now if it was not beneficial?
I read an article years ago about a computer program that used natural selection to build electrical circuits. Not only could it create a circuit to do the right thing in just a few generations, it often did it in novel ways that an electrical engineer wouldn't, and it was MORE EFFICIENT. Although sometimes the circuits also had parts that seemed to do nothing at all.
So, what do I know?
I read an article years ago about a computer program that used natural selection to build electrical circuits. Not only could it create a circuit to do the right thing in just a few generations, it often did it in novel ways that an electrical engineer wouldn't, and it was MORE EFFICIENT. Although sometimes the circuits also had parts that seemed to do nothing at all.
So, what do I know?
"Bad news, bad news came to me where I sleep / Turn turn turn again" - Bob Dylan