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My simple conception is that evolution loves local maxima.

Therefore mutations ensure you don't get stuck there.

Then some bored postgrad adds grasshopper gears & wheels to a lab cockroach. One mutation to force evolution everywhere.

Little chitin matchbox racecaroaches everywhere ..

Exactly, it takes more time and energy to undo a mutation that unblocks a better solution than it is to mutate a solution that works with existing mutations.

It's why intelligent machines will absolutely destroy us when it comes to being "superior".

It never left the "does need to sleep" branch. It's not much a sci fi writer.