A digital simulation of natural selection may replace the more "creationist" approach currently used to design integrated circuits. Miguel Garvie, a research student at the University of Sussex in the UK, has developed software that lets ordinary computer users contribute their spare processing power to create a virtual evolutionary environment for the project. Randomizing processes produce a wide variety of designs, and then the best designs are allowed to sexually reproduce, leading to offspring who survive or die off according to their fitness. Folks, I'm not making this up!
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