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Yes, because it was a largely random undirected process.

Even in directed processes the low hanging fruit is harvested first.

Then you have to climb to another branch to get more fruit. The biggest issue with most problem space discovery is you're doing it blindfolded.

I probably replied to the wrong comment with my previous response. The low lying fruit, in this case, should be going from single cell to multi cell, but that took ages.

It accelerated from there rather than slowing down.

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