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>That is not true. It could lead to the most optimal solution.

There is no such thing as "the most optimal solution". Optimality is a human imposition on the world. Fitness functions do not actually exist, they are merely a way for us to conceive of the operation of selection. Evolution is not performing gradient descent.




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