Carl Zimmer’s article regarding Artificial Life covers developments within the field using the Avida application.
“…After more than a decade of development, Avida’s digital organisms are now getting close to fulfilling the definition of biological life. ‚Äö√Ñ√∫More and more of the features that biologists have said were necessary for life we can check off,‚Äö√Ñ√π says Robert Pennock, a philosopher at Michigan State and a member of the Avida team…”