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INFLUENCE OF THE DESIGNER. "The ability of most artificial evolutionary systems is primarily limited by the interpreter that defines the man-made elementary functions. For example, the ability of genetic programming is determined by a set of terminal functions prepared by the designer." https://lnkd.in/d-nkQc4 View in LinkedIn

VIRTUAL evolution is imprecise. "The solutions were a mess! Evolution went the long way around. Or it burrowed through the problem by some circuitous loophole of logic. Evolution was chock-full of redundancy. It was inelegant." https://lnkd.in/d3G_hCh View in LinkedIn

MAN'S IMAGINATION may arguably be the greatest asset of the human species, but it is infinitely dwarfed by the raw creativity of nature's boundless forms. Even undirected random mutation devices can construct the unimaginable. View in LinkedIn

AMINO ACID SKEW. "A similar pattern can be seen among amino acids on Earth. Wherever life is at work, the amino acids favored by biological organisms appear in much higher concentrations than they do in the absence of life." https://lnkd.in/d4b3fY4 View in LinkedIn

SIM'S MENAGERIE. "A population of several hundred creatures is created within a supercomputer, and each creature is tested for their ability to perform a given task, such the ability to swim in a simulated water environment. The successful survive, and their virtual genes containing coded instructions for their growth, are copied, combined, and mutated to make offspring for a new population. The new creatures are again tested, and some may be improvements on their parents. As this cycle of variation and selection continues, creatures with more and more successful behaviors can emerge." https://lnkd.in/dfYmYWR View in LinkedIn

CO-EVOLUTION OF PARASITE AND HOST. "The arms race between pathogens and hosts is a major force in evolution that is likely to have played key roles in the origins of multicellularity and sexual reproduction, among other biological phenomena." https://lnkd.in/d9zsv9R View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE considers the phenomenon of host suicide, the sacrifice of individuals for the betterment of the population. This is not rare in biology and has been quite well studied. The function of host suicide is to thwart the reproductive strategy of the parasite. And curiously, some viral parasites have evolved cunning strategies of preventing host cell death. View in LinkedIn

DIGITAL WORM. "Scientists digitize the brain of a worm and place it inside a robot." https://lnkd.in/dehvuZe View in LinkedIn

STEP 3: SOPHISTICATED. "Some developed counterstrategies, learning to push opponents away from the object. One learned to grab the cube, then pin a smaller rival, preventing it from taking the cube back. As with organic life, the creatures evolved many body types and behaviors to achieve the same goal." https://lnkd.in/dD4T763 View in LinkedIn

STEP 2: GETTING BETTER. "Over time – Sims has run some experiments out to 300 generations – the creatures started behaving like real animals, wanting nothing more than to seize and keep the cube. Some developed arms to reach out and encircle it; others evolved large flat bodies to cover it. Some walked toward the cube, others hopped, paddled, or crawled." https://lnkd.in/dD4T763 View in LinkedIn