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From: P.N.Randell@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Paul N Randell)
Subject: A Question
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I am currently working on a preprocessing element for the GENITOR TSP package.
It produces an enriched initial population without loosing the diversity
that allows the GA to explore the problem space.
At the moment i'm producing tours of equivalent or shorter length than
those produced by GENITOR on its own and in a reduced number of generations.

One possible interpretation of this is that natural selection is not the
best method for producing small scale building blocks (or sub tours in 
this case) ,what ever small scale may be taken as meaning.

My biology not being too good i was wondering if what i have noticed with 
GENITOR is mirrored in nature.Did it take comparitively longer for basic
organisms to evolve than for these to develop into more complex creatures?

'Basic' and 'complex' are i guess prity vague terms but i hope i've
conveyed the basic idea.Any thoughts/opinions/answers would be most welcome.

Thanks

Paul Randell
pnr@dcs.warwick.ac.uk
esvcp.csv.warwick.ac.uk
University of Warwick
