On 27 May 2009 at 17:43, [email protected] wrote: > [Platt] > > > > I...wonder why life forms (genes) have an urge to survive. > > Start with the senario that 1/3 of the genes in an environment have the urge > to > survive, 1/3 don't care & 1/3 have the urge to self-destruct. Assuming all > reproduce at the same rate, after 1 generation, the ratio of the respective > genes will be 2:1:0, for generation +2, it will be 4:1:0,...for generation > +n, it will be > n > > > I...wonder why life forms (genes) have an urge to survive. > > Start with the senario that 1/3 of the genes in an environment have the urge > to > survive, 1/3 don't care & 1/3 have the urge to self-destruct. Assuming all > reproduce at the same rate, after 1 generation, the ratio of the respective > genes will be 2:1:0, for generation +2, it will be 4:1:0,...for generation > +n, it will be > n > > 2 :1:0. > n > 2 becomes a large number very quickly. >
Sorry, I don't get the point. I'm mathematically challenged. I thought the question was why do any genes have an urge to survive, 1/3 or otherwise? Platt Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
