The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities

How evolution learns to generalise: Using the principles of learning theory to understand the evolution of developmental organisation

(2017) Kostas Kouvaris et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

WebAL Comes of Age: A Review of the First 21 Years of Artificial Life on the Web

(2016) Tim Taylor et al.   ARTIFICIAL LIFE

Moonlight Drives Ocean-Scale Mass Vertical Migration of Zooplankton during the Arctic Winter

(2016) Kim S. Last et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The natural selection of bad science

(2016) Paul E. Smaldino et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Investigating Biological Assumptions through Radical Reimplementation

(2015) Joel Lehman et al.   ARTIFICIAL LIFE

Bats Are Acoustically Attracted to Mutualistic Carnivorous Plants

(2015) Michael G. Schöner et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Robots that can adapt like animals

(2015) Antoine Cully et al.   NATURE

Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

(2015) Volodymyr Mnih et al.   NATURE

Neural Modularity Helps Organisms Evolve to Learn New Skills without Forgetting Old Skills

(2015) Kai Olav Ellefsen et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

A Model for Genome Size Evolution

(2014) Stephan Fischer et al.   BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

Ultrafast endocytosis at mouse hippocampal synapses

(2013) Shigeki Watanabe et al.   NATURE

A Case Study of the De Novo Evolution of a Complex Odometric Behavior in Digital Organisms

(2013) Laura M. Grabowski et al.   PLoS One

Experiments on the role of deleterious mutations as stepping stones in adaptive evolution

(2013) Arthur W. Covert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The evolutionary origins of modularity

(2013) J. Clune et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genetic Architecture Promotes the Evolution and Maintenance of Cooperation

(2013) Antoine Frénoy et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

New insights into bacterial adaptation through in vivo and in silico experimental evolution

(2012) Thomas Hindré et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Task-switching costs promote the evolution of division of labor and shifts in individuality

(2012) H. J. Goldsby et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Picbreeder: A Case Study in Collaborative Evolutionary Exploration of Design Space

(2010) Jimmy Secretan et al.   EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION

Abandoning Objectives: Evolution Through the Search for Novelty Alone

(2010) Joel Lehman et al.   EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION

Horizontal Gene Transfer of the Secretome Drives the Evolution of Bacterial Cooperation and Virulence

(2009) Teresa Nogueira et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Dynamic limits for bloat control in genetic programming and a review of past and current bloat theories

(2009) Sara Silva et al.   Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines

The evolution of information suppression in communicating robots with conflicting interests

(2009) S. Mitri et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Natural Selection Fails to Optimize Mutation Rates for Long-Term Adaptation on Rugged Fitness Landscapes

(2008) Jeff Clune et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Human-competitive lens system design with evolution strategies

(2007) Christian Gagné et al.   APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING