The article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn3268

Part of the forward flow of the 'dancer' could be that combining novel information on the page with existing knowledge enables local minimum-escaping Stuart Kauffman-esque long leaps of recombination?

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0FEfS5PP3c