>Imagine if you can randomly jumble up code and still have a reasonable outcome. Ray's Tierra (early 1990s) was a fascinating experiment with this. Its DNA are

>Imagine if you can randomly jumble up code and still have a reasonable outcome. Ray's Tierra (early 1990s) was a fascinating experiment with this. Its DNA are little assembler-like programs telling the 'creatures' how to reproduce, how to copy their genes. Many kinds of parasites evolved. I believe no-one had tried randomly mutating genetic info like that before Tierra. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_(computer_simulation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_(computer_simulation) http://life.ou.edu/pubs/doc/index.html#What http://life.ou.edu/pubs/doc/index.html#What I recommend Sapolsky's Biology of Human Behavior course - accessible to beginners, it goes into a lot of detail about DNA, genes, the brain, emotions, sexual selection, evolution, and the many other levels involved in animal and human behaviour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C...