Report 80 27 The Heuristics of Nature The Plausible S Stanford Mutation of DNA . Douglas B.

We expect that the percentage of DNA which codes for heuristics rather than proteins would increase with the complexity and sophistication of the organism. Man should have more heuristics than chickens, which should have more than E. coll. This isn't because we're "better", just because our DNA program is longer and more involved; if our ability to adapt is to be anywhere near as good as bacteria's, we must compensate for our unwieldy program size and generation time by employing poweful judgmental rules, heuristics which put each generation to maximum use.