Artificial Evolution and Artificial Life

Abstract

This chapter contains sections titled: Basic Principles, An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms: Evolving a Neural Controller for an Autonomous Agent, Examples of Artificially Evolved Agents, Toward Biological Plausibility: Cell Growth from Genome-Based Cell-to-Cell Communication, Real Robots, Evolution of Hardware, and Simulation, Artificial Life: Additional Examples, Methodological Issues and Conclusions