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This means that the rules of genetic variation may have a different meaning in the natural case.

For instance – provided that steps are stored in consecutive order – crossing over may sum a number of steps from maternal DNA adding a number of steps from paternal DNA and so on.

This is like adding vectors that more probably may follow a ridge in the phenotypic landscape.

Thus, the efficiency of the process may be increased by many orders of magnitude.

Moreover, the inversion operator has the opportunity to place steps in consecutive order or any other suitable order in favour of survival or efficiency.

( See for instance Other noteworthy early pioneers include Richard Friedberg, George Friedman, and Michael Conrad.

Many early papers are reprinted by Fogel ( 1998 ).