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Mark Vellend, "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics" (Princeton UP, 2025)

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Does Adaptive Evolution Reach Optimal Outcomes?

Gregory asks about adaptive evolution and optimality; Vellend discusses constraints, historical legacies, and local versus global optima.

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