The Evoloop is a modification of Langton's loop which is capable of interaction with neighboring loops as well as evolution. Rather than becoming dormant when it is surrounded by neighbors, the Evoloop is capable of interacting with them. The Evoloop's genome is also much less rigid than that of the original loop, allowing speciation. Often, the greatest selection pressure in a colony of Evoloops is the competition for space, and natural selection often favors the smallest functional loop present. Lum de do day dea dea dea ... This article is about evolution in biology. ... In biology the genome of an organism is the whole hereditary information of an organism that is encoded in the DNA (or, for some viruses, RNA). ... Charles Darwins first sketch of an evolutionary tree from his First Notebook on Transmutation of Species (1837) Speciation is the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise. ... Darwins illustrations of beak variation in the finches of the Galápagos Islands, which hold 13 closely related species that differ most markedly in the shape of their beaks. ...

Evoloop Interaction

Though it is rare in any given Evoloop simulation, a form of conjugation can sometimes be observed among interacting loops. Following a collision between sheathed "pseudopodia", genes from one loop interfere with those from another, producing a hybrid or chimera daughter loop. This conjugation, however, is not particularly useful for evolutionary purposes, as the daughter organisms are usually incapable of reproduction. Conjugation may refer to: Grammatical conjugation, the modification of runnign a verb from its basic form Latin conjugation, Spanish conjugation and The English verb, each with complex conjugation forms Marriage, relationship between two individuals In mathematics: Complex conjugation, the operation which multiplies the imaginary part of a complex number by... // This article is about a biological term. ... In zoology, a chimera is an animal that has two or more different populations of genetically distinct cells that originated in different zygotes; if the different cells emerged from the same zygote, it is called a mosaicism. ...

See Also

• Langton's loops
• Christopher Langton
• Artificial life
• Evolution

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External links

• Hiroki Sayama's evoloop webpage
• Artis Project