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We use digital evolution to investigate the evolutionary consequences of phenotypic plasticity.

Source for our manuscript, "Adaptive phenotypic plasticity stabilizes evolution in fluctuating environments"

A collection of work investigating the potentiation of associative learning in digital organisms

Figures, scripts and data for paper "Spatial resource heterogeneity creates local hotspots of evolutionary potential"

Python tools for working with environment files and spatial data in Avida

Holds supplemental materials, code, configuration settings, et cetera for 2025 ALife conference paper, "Environmental connectivity influences long-term evolutionary outcomes"

Scripts, data, and configs for paper "The Effects of Evolution and Spatial Structure on Diversity in Biological Reserves"

A digital evolution soup built as an archaeology site: self-replicating machine code, and the instruments to work out what it became.

Model, configuration, data, analysis, and figures for Resource Abundance and the Critical Transition to Cooperation