"Harmful genes will increase their metabolic efficiency, getting hungry slower, and thus consuming less food overall. Meanwhile helpful genes reduce metabolic efficiency, getting hungry faster, and thus consuming more food." how is consuming more food helpful
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Metabolic efficiency is the price you pay for genes that are helpful in other ways - so if you get an advantage (say you move faster) you pay for that by having lower metabolic efficiency and having to eat more food. But if you take on a detriment (e.g. you are a ugly) you get paid for that by having higher metabolic efficiency and eating less food.
If this was confusing, it might be worth looking into rewriting that line.