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In <24659@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> tackett@ipld01.hac.com (Walter Alden Tackett) writes:

>Larry Yaegar (sorry if I butchered the last name!) at apple (larryy@apple.com
>is his address if memory serves) has a wonderful simulation that runs on
>SGI machines.  It falls most squarely under the category of Artificial Life,
>since the evolving creatures are implicitly rewarded for survival and 
>reproduction (i.e., they must feed, defend themselves, and mate while others
>around them do the same) rather than being rewarded for an explicit externally
>imposed fitness function.  Different genotypes evolve, each with their own
>niche.  Most go extinct fairly rapidly, some flourish.  Very visual, this work
>will probably be published in the forthcoming Artificial Life III procedings
>and the software can be obtained from Larry Yaegar (I think).

I think it's also available via anonymous ftp at "ftp.apple.com" and maybe
at "ftp.cognet.ucla.edu" as well.

Cheers,
Rob




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