Interactive tools for exploring evolution, ecology, systems, evidence, and model-based reasoning.
Interactive platforms
These platforms let learners and teachers work directly with change over time, evidence, systems, selection, biodiversity, and optimization. The goal is not just to launch an app, but to give users an active way to investigate concepts, compare outcomes, and build more grounded understanding through exploration.
Foundations for evidence and causal reasoning
foundations
Practice separating observations, baselines, candidate causes, stochastic mechanisms, value claims, model boundaries, and justified causal claims.
A foundational empirical-reasoning tool for learning how biological explanations move from measured patterns to cautious causal inference.
Population genetics and population change
population genetics
Explore how drift, selection, mutation, and migration change allele frequencies over time.
An interactive population-genetics tool for comparing forces that shape variation and evolutionary change.
population genetics
Explore how movement, distance, and barriers shape gene flow across landscapes.
An interactive landscape-genetics tool for investigating dispersal, fragmentation, and population structure.
Ecology and environmental dynamics
ecology
Explore how shifting climate conditions can move habitats and reshape where organisms can persist.
An interactive climate-and-range-change model for comparing mismatch, movement, and environmental response.
ecology
Explore predator-prey dynamics, feedback, stability, and collapse in changing ecological systems.
An interactive ecology model for comparing cycles, constraints, intervention, and system behavior over time.
ecology
Explore how survival and reproduction at different life stages change the future of a population.
An interactive life-history and demography tool for comparing growth, decline, vulnerability, and persistence.
Artificial life and evolutionary computation
artificial life
Compare cumulative selection with random change and see how repeated choice reshapes outcomes.
A classic selection demo reframed as a tool for exploring variation, selection, and the limits of simple models.
artificial life
Run digital evolution experiments to explore mutation, selection, adaptation, and evidence from evolving systems.
The evo-edu public entry point into Avida-ED and related digital-evolution learning materials.
artificial life
Explore how search and optimization can build shorter, more efficient networks from the same set of points.
An interactive network-design tool for comparing efficiency, tradeoffs, and optimization strategies.
artificial life
Explore route finding through iterative search and watch better solutions emerge over generations.
An interactive optimization tool for comparing routes, heuristics, and generational improvement in a TSP-style problem.
artificial life
Explore how small inherited changes and repeated selection can reshape evolving forms.
An interactive biomorph-style tool for exploring variation, inheritance, constraint, and visible change over time.
Research support and extension
research support
Extend a topic through literature search, bibliography growth, and evidence-trail building.
A research-support tool for finding related literature, building reading lists, and expanding bibliographies with CiteGeist support.
Status: Planned public surface.