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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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98Evolving to Extinction
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91The Tragedy of Group Selectionism
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84Problems in evolutionary psychology
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65Conjuring 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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304There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
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83Evolutionary Psychology
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76Evolutions Are Stupid (But Work Anyway)
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55Protein Reinforcement and DNA Consequentialism
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