Artificial Life evo-edu.org

Digital evolution investigations built around mutation, selection, adaptation, and evidence from evolving populations.

Digital Evolution Lab

Use digital organisms to study evolution as an experimental process.

Digital Evolution Lab is the evo-edu.org route into the Avida-ED environment and its surrounding support materials. Use it to frame mutation, selection, adaptation, tradeoffs, and evidence-based explanation around repeatable digital experiments.

Open application Learner guide Teacher guide Standards and alignment About and provenance

What this platform supports

Core investigations

  • Selection and adaptation in evolving populations
  • Mutation, chance, and historical contingency
  • Tradeoffs between speed, complexity, and task performance

Why it matters

  • Makes evolutionary change observable within class time
  • Supports claim-evidence-reasoning from experimental runs
  • Connects abstract concepts to concrete traces and outcomes

Public route status

Application model

This route intentionally launches the legacy Avida-ED environment rather than replacing it. The remediation work here focuses on stronger learner, teacher, standards, and provenance surfaces around that runtime.