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Two weeks ago, we revisited the Quandary Den to see what happens when multiple players are able to work together. We did this by modeling gene duplication, a known biological process. Last week we saw some results showing that solutions involving multiple players could evolve, and when multiple players got involved solutions tended to come faster. At the same time, more wasn’t always better; we saw that when players were added too quickly, they were more likely to get in the way and inhibit solutions. This little model gives us a picture for how organisms might evolve complexity, that is solutions involving distinct, coordinated parts. In this case, we have an adaptive pathway to complexity, since adding players provides opportunities to potentially increase fitness. But is that the only road to complexity?
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