Depends on your time frame. Looking at the whole history of life on Earth evolution certainly correlates with complexity, looking at the last few million years, not so much.
I understand the argument about the upper limit of genetic information that can be sustained. I am somewhat suspicious of it because I’m not sure what will happen to this argument if we do NOT assume a stable environment (so the target of the optimization is elusive, it’s always moving) and we do NOT assume a single-point optimum but rather imagine a good-enough plateau on which genome could wander without major selection consequences.
But I haven’t thought about it enough to form a definite opinion.
Depends on your time frame. Looking at the whole history of life on Earth evolution certainly correlates with complexity, looking at the last few million years, not so much.
I understand the argument about the upper limit of genetic information that can be sustained. I am somewhat suspicious of it because I’m not sure what will happen to this argument if we do NOT assume a stable environment (so the target of the optimization is elusive, it’s always moving) and we do NOT assume a single-point optimum but rather imagine a good-enough plateau on which genome could wander without major selection consequences.
But I haven’t thought about it enough to form a definite opinion.