Anyone familiar with this project??

[Mustard]

A friend sent me this as he had seen a writeup in a magazine. So I got to wondering if anyone in the group had seen it before or had any experience/knowledge of it?

http://devolab.cse.msu.edu/

[jasong]

Definitely an interesting concept. Judging from my 30-second perusal just now, it sounds a little like like the Distributed Hardware project.

I'm going to take another look after lunch.

EDIT: Never mind, it's nothing like DHEP. When they wrote about it in Discover magazine, I remember being frustrated that it wasn't a DC project. Obviously, Discover magazine didn't feel that fact was worthy of mention.

Kind of makes me wonder what other online nuggets I'm missing.

[jasong]

lmao (look at the highlighted word)

Therefore, if the parent is genetically very brittle, so that most of these mutants have a low replication rate or are even lethal, then the overall replication rate of all the organism's offspring will be fairly moderate, even though the organism itself may produce offspring at a rapid paste. If a different organism produces offspring at a slower paste, but is more robust towards mutations, so that the majority of this organism's offspring have a replication rate similar to that of their parent, then the overall replication rate of this organism's offspring will be larger than the one of the first organism.

Apparently, even hardcore intellectuals can be lousy spellers.