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MEAL demonstrates concepts in evolutionary biology to impatient visitors with modest hardware.
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The Museum of Evolution and Artificial Life  We aim to demonstrate concepts in evolutionary biology to impatient visitors with modest hardware. Stroll into our main wing and examine our exhibits: The Weasel demonstrates the power of evolutionary techniques to solve huge problems fast. BiomorphBounce illustrates the effect...
http://home.pacbell.net/s-max/scott/meal.html

This is a site for various projects in evolution, molecular evolution and phylogenetic epidemiology being carried out by members in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford.
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Oxford Evolutionary Biology Evolution, Molecular Phylogenetics Epidemiology, Molecular Evolution Software  This is a site for various projects in evolutionary biology, molecular evolution and phylogenetic epidemiology being carried out by members of the research group headed by Paul Harvey in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. All email...
http://evolve.zoo.ox.ac.uk/

Free PC software package for simulating evolution in structured populations. Includes models for group selection, group territoriality, Wright's shifting balance model of punctuated equilibria and speciation.
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Simulation of biological evolution  Computer simulation of biological evolution in structured populations Public license software package Altruist by Agner Fog Contents: introduction simulation of group selection models simulation of punctuated equilibria download program technical description and version history discussion board Introduction Altruist is a...
http://www.agner.org/evolution/

A java-based simulation illustrating natural selection in action, with a dynamic environment affected by simulated biological activity. Requires Java 2 plug-in. Contextual help, explanatory material available.
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AJ's Black Smoker  Java applet that schematically2 models natural selection. The Smoker grew out of an earlier Java application I called Clockmaker (also still available on this site, as of this writing which, in turn, was originally inspired by Richard Dawkins The Blind...
http://www.well.com/~ajmilne/black_smoker/

Open-ended simulation game of evolving species. Players design species of animals, which compete against each other in a virtual jungle.
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Food Chain  Players design species of animals, which compete against each other in the jungle. Players submit orders by sending email to an email server at the site pbm.com. For details about the game, please see the rules. There are several programs...
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/fchain.html

Designed on the model of SETI@home, this project makes evolutionary data available for download to, and analysis on, personal computers. Splitting up the work among a variety of machines results in faster results generation.
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Welcome to evolutionary-research!  Total summary stats available Say No To Softwarepatents! Archive: Former news Some links about global computing News New Forum available (25 May 2005) Thanks to science@home, we now have a new forum in English and German. The forum is open...
http://www.evolutionary-research.net

Watch creatures based on a neural network learn to solve simple problems (eating the right foods, escaping traps) through random mutations and selection of the fittest. Highly configurable, with a modular structure.
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GA2 Virtua Life Simulator  Tra qualche giorno sar disponibile la versione 1.3 di GA2 con numerose migliorie, e soprattutto un'help potente e chiaro, cosa vorresti trovare in GA2 1.3? News 16-07-2001 Inserita un'interessante simulazione in cui le creature sono impegnate in una guerra con...
http://digilander.libero.it/galife/

This course presents an overview of the field of Evolutionary Systems and its applied branch of Artificial Life. The historical and philosophical foundations of evolutionary thought are explored with particular emphasis on computational simulations of its models. Topics include: Self-Organizing Systems, Natural Selection, Dynamic Systems, Boolean Networks, Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, and Evolutionary Robotics.
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Evolutionary Systems and Artificial Life  This course presents an overview of the field of Evolutionary Systems and its applied branch of Artificial Life. The historical and philosophical foundations of evolutionary thought are explored with particular emphasis on computational simulations of its models. Topics include: Self-Organizing...
http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/alife.html

Simulation of evolution by natural selection in a wasp population.
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Amber ALife Wasps free artificial life game  This game represents current achievements in genetic algorithm theory. Here is a population of wasps is evaluating in time. It follows to Darwin laws. The best wasp stays to live and produces new generations. But sick and weak wasp died....
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/2971/awasps.html

Planetwide effort to create networked digital ecosystems. Information on participating teams, how to get involved, and news.
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Darwin@Home: May 2, 2005  Home is a planetwide effort to create networked digital ecosystems. D@H teams strive toward an elusive goal: to observe lifelike evolutionary processes in virtual or robotic space. D@H platforms run distributed across a large pool of networked computers and interactive...
http://darwinathome.com/