in reply to How to evolve a permutation?

This sounds like a very interesting problem. Could you just elaborate on:

Thanks,

ER

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Re^2: How to evolve a permutation?
by zli034 (Monk) on Feb 14, 2008 at 23:12 UTC

    Question: If evolution is the holy grail of all creatures to survive inside this unpredictable world, can we use evolution to solve all our problems? Or else, can we demonstrate the weakness of evolution?

    Wikipedia:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm

    Perlmonks:
    http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=298877

      Would a species not evolving in response to a problem die out? Would this really be a "weakness of evolution" or simply a weakness of that species?