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Building blocks and recombination

How studying biological interactions and evolution yields techniques for predicting the outcome of complex interactions.

By John Holland

Genetic algorithms function by recombining the building blocks of a system such as the features of a face or components of a jet engine. Each product of recombination, each design, is tested for fitness. The building blocks of the best designs are recombined in a subsequent generation until fitness is found.

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Nose preferences
by anonymous poster

[Comment posted 2008-09-04 06:14:45]
Whoever designed the face patterns seems to prefer the long and thin nose - the elegant Roman form perhaps. I was hoping to find a nice short and round shape. Perhaps we need a larger range of variation here. Or I should leave the village and look for a mate elsewhere.



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