Barricelli showed that organisms evolved by symbiosis and cooperation (2014)

Posted by dnetesn on Monday July 15, 2019 @07:32AM
from the nautil.us dept.

http://nautil.us/issue/74/networks/the-computer-maverick-who-modeled-the-evolution-of-life

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Re:Barricelli showed that organisms evolved by symbiosis and... by Lowkeyloki on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:06PM (#20442849)

Tangentially related, I highly recommend the Steven Levy book Artificial Life. It's pretty dated now, but it's still a fantastic read. I couldn't put it down.

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Re:Barricelli showed that organisms evolved by symbiosis and... by EvanAnderson on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:40PM (#20443229)

Strongly seconded. Reading "Artificial Life" in my teens was a formative experience for me. Reading about Tierra[1], in particular (and being an assembler program who also played "Core War"), filled me with wild enthusiasm. I even went so far as to try implementing something similar on my own (albeit I never did get it into a finished state).

re: this article - I was surprised to see somebody thinking about modeling evolution in computers all the way back in the 1950's.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_(computer_simulation)

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