You will see it mutate according to well understood mutation mechanisms. You will see it grow in length and take on advantageous mutations. You can watch this replicator organism turn the field red as it consumes all the available nutrients then turn the field dark green as it takes on its first advantageous mutation and passes it to all of its offspring. Then finally see it turn bright green as it takes on its second advantageous mutation. It is well on its way to growing with out bound with each new mutation.
By studying the simulation, you will learn how replication facilitates genome growth. You will learn how disadvantageous mutations, which are prevalent before the replicators take over, are selected out with the increasing success of the replicators. You will learn how advantageous mutations increase genome length and how natural selection favors them.
The mechanism which favors advantageous mutations dispels the creationist argument that evolution defies the second law of thermodynamics. As you can see in my simulation. Information becomes more orderly over time, not less orderly.
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The software is free to use. Please consider donating $5 $10 or $15 dollars to the author by PayPal jerrywickey@terranova.net
The software logs to a user specified file the entire genome of every organism in each generation. It assigns each a serial number so that any organism can be traced back to its original replicator. Be careful, this output file can easily be over 100 megabytes.
Mutation rates are completely user alterable.
Robustness of replication is user alterable.
The number of nucleotides is user alterable.
I have not written a manual. You are welcome to email any questions.
A short tutorial. jerrywickey@terranova.net
