Artificial Life evo-edu.org

Weasel-style selection demonstration for variation, selection, and cumulative change.

Cumulative change

Inspect how cumulative selection differs from purely random search.

This app helps learners compare targeted selection with random change and discuss what the demonstration can and cannot show about evolution.

Open application Study guide Curriculum alignment About API
Core questionWhat difference does cumulative selection make compared with undirected random change?
App pageStandardized evo-edu wrapper over the current implementation.
Guide statusTeacher and learner guide created in this remediation pass.
API statusArtificial-life family API prototype now available.

Why Use This Tool

What learners do

This app helps learners compare targeted selection with random change and discuss what the demonstration can and cannot show about evolution.

Concepts to foreground

  • selection
  • random variation
  • cumulative change
  • search space
  • model limits

Provenance

Public evo-edu framing over the legacy Weasel demonstration. Read the fuller about and provenance notes.

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