The Effects of Environmental Contamination in an Artificial Ecosystem
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Although Artificial Life has been a field of Computer Science for nearly twenty years, it seems that the majority of research is concerned with “what is inevitable in the open-ended evolution of life”, as outlined in Mark Bedau’s Open Problems in Artificial Life [3]. Bedau also suggests that the environment in which the artificially alive organisms are contained needs to be observed. This paper presents a study of an artificially created ecosystem, with co-dependent organisms. However, instead of observing an environment in stasis, a poison is introduced to the system, which removes resources key to certain organisms’ survival, and the resulting adaptation of the remaining organisms is observed. Conclusions are derived through observation of both the stability and the survivability of these ecosystems for a variety of mutation rates and poison percentages.
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