"A-LIFE: Project treads in Darwin's path to simulate evolution"
A research program in artificial intelligence has been refocused to simulate real biological organisms in hopes of gleaning an understanding of biological diversity. The goal is to create a living "road map" that encapsulates the history of evolution in an electronic petri dish called Avida. The researchers are investigating how complex organisms evolve from simple ones.
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