Scientists
have demonstrated that organisms with greater complexity are more likely to
evolve in complex environments, according to research published this week in PLOS Computational Biology.
The
conclusion of the paper is that each virtual organism was made using a
particular form of genetic encoding to create three-dimensional models and then
simulated in a physically-realistic virtual world. Creatures that evolved in
flat landscapes had a simple shape, but could not adequately navigate more
complex environments. Later environments were designed with elevated "ice
blocks." These obstacles were constructed so that each organism had to
reach inside the gaps between the blocks to move forwards.
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