Eliezer> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:

Eliezer> root of the population size (duh).  N in Baum, Boneh, and
Eliezer> Garrett (1995) is the length of the string, not the
Eliezer> population size.  Why http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/82728.html
Eliezer> shows that you can gain anything proportional to sqrt(P) per
Eliezer> generation, I have no idea. 

My bad, its been a while since I wrote it...
Check out "Rate of Information Acquisition by a Species subjected to
Natural Selection" by David J. C. MacKay as well

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/abstracts/gene.html

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