Evidently, organisms adapt well enough to ‘satisfice’; they do not, in general, ‘optimize’.
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Satisfice
//ˈsætɪsfaɪs//
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[T]here are two contrasting types of decision-making mentalities, maximizing and satisficing. If you're choosing a marriage partner, you probably want to maximize. You want to find the very best person you are totally in love with. […] But politics is not like that. Politics is a prosaic activity most of the time. You probably want to satisfice, pick the person who's good enough, who seems reasonably responsible.
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