Digital Life and Evolution

Digital Life and Evolution: "'Discover Magazine has a story about The Digital Evolution Lab at Michigan State University. Scientists there have created virus-like computer programs that replicate, mutate randomly, and compete with each other... in other words, they evolve. Among such feats as learning to add and compare numbers, these digital life forms also once avoided scientists attempts at 'killing' them, by playing dead. You can download the project yourself from SourceForge.' We first mentioned this in early 2003, but it appears to have developed a good deal since then."