In the world of video games, battling aliens and monsters always involved a sense of survival of the fittest. Now professors from five European universities want to see how such computer characters would evolve in a simulated society. The researchers are developing characters with complex personalities and traits and letting them battle it out in virtual reality to study how societies evolve. The 1,000 simulated characters will have to eat, choose mates, and raise their young, and their genetic traits will either prosper or get wiped out of existence. (NewScientist.com)
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