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by billswift 5288 days ago
All systems evolve, if they can change at all. Systems with intelligent actors (software, language, economics, etc) involve more factors than biological evolution does. Biological evolution is mainly through variation and selection. Intelligent evolution also involves borrowing (acquisition) from outside the "genome", planning of future changes, analogical reasoning between "lineages", and other means of generating and fixing variations.