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Evolution of Music Illustrates Epistatic Interactions
In today’s issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, BEACONite Chris Adami comments on a research article by MacCallum, Mauch, Burt & Leroy on “The evolution of music by public choice.” Much like the digital evolution techniques used … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolving Robot Behavior
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Chad Byers. I have always been fascinated by the mechanisms that drive both the molecular and digital systems of our world and have been fortunate enough, through … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Speciation and genetic incompatibilities in digital organisms
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Carlos Anderson. This blog post is a follow up to one I wrote last year about my research on speciation with digital organisms. One of my projects tested … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Mathematical modeling of evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Masoud Mirmomeni. I bet that the very first time you saw this kind of picture, an unconscious “ahh!” came out. Well, it worked on me. But now, I … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolution of Cooperation in Artificial Systems
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Daniel Couvertier. We have all seen the wonders of evolution in the biological world. We have marveled at the great variety in the creatures that share the … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Professional Scientist, Amateur Ambassador
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Rosangela Canino-Koning. “You study evolution? Oh, I don’t believe in that.” Virtually every new graduate student has experienced that flash of panic when confronted by a well-meaning relative, … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Studying the evolution of sociality with real and digital hyenas
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Aaron Wagner. The evolution of sociality is one of the most fascinating and productive topics in evolutionary biology. Though it is often very useful to look to social … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolution of Higher Mutation Rates
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington graduate student Tasneem Pierce. When I started as an undergraduate in BEACON a year ago, I kept hearing about Avida and how powerful it is to study … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Teaching Computational Evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Texas at Austin postdoc Art Covert. My name is Art Covert and I’m a teacher. Specifically, I teach the “Computational Evolution Stream” in the Wilke Lab as part of … Continue reading