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Podcast: The DemystifySci Podcast
Episode: Natural Selection Isn’t the Whole Story - Dr. Richard Watson, University of Southampton
Description: Is competition really all there is? If you take the word of those who insist that natural selection is solely responsible for all of life on earth, then yes. The story goes that competition drives fitness, that maximizing fitness ensures survival, and that survival ensures your traits become fixed in the population. But that's not the whole story. On the other side of the competitive evolutionary coin, there is natural induction, a cooperative process that balances the competitive aspects of natural selection.
On this week's episode, Dr. Richard Watson uses the language of machine learning and artificial i...