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Evolution is "change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations" (Wikipedia). For posts about machine learning look here.

Related: Biology, Evolutionary Psychology,

The sequence, The Simple Math of Evolution provides a good introduction to LessWrong thinking about evolution....

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127Adaptation-Executers, not Fitness-Maximizers
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109Evolving to Extinction
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98The Tragedy of Group Selectionism
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85Problems in evolutionary psychology
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161Evolution of ModularityΩ
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145Studies On Slack
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69Conjuring An Evolution To Serve You
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57Analogies and General Priors on IntelligenceΩ
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38The innocent gene
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7A common misconception about the evolution of viruses
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318There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
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88Evolutionary Psychology
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85Evolutions Are Stupid (But Work Anyway)
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57Protein Reinforcement and DNA Consequentialism
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