Fisher’s Fundamental Theorem (Part 4)

I just finished a paper that summarizes my posts here on a result connecting natural selection to information theory:

• John Baez, The fundamental theorem of natural selection.

Check it out! If you have any questions or see any mistakes, please let me know.

Just for fun, here’s the abstract and introduction.

Abstract. Suppose we have n different types of self-replicating entity, with the population of the ith type changing at a rate equal to times the fitness of that type. Suppose the fitness...