Don't basically all genetic algorithms rely on "random chance," or some simulation of random chance, to simulate a mutation rate?
And haven't biologists, in recent years, emphasized the degree to which evolution relies on mutations and genetic drift? That was my understanding of the way the field has been going, anyway.
Saying that evolution as a whole is just "random chance" seems reductionist, but randomness does appear to be involved.
And haven't biologists, in recent years, emphasized the degree to which evolution relies on mutations and genetic drift? That was my understanding of the way the field has been going, anyway.
Saying that evolution as a whole is just "random chance" seems reductionist, but randomness does appear to be involved.