Awhile ago I wrote a simple little program that simulates the evolution of a species ( or sequence of letters in this case ) through sexual or asexual reproduction and mutation governed by natural selection. I only have a basic understanding of evolution but I tried to make the simulation somewhat realistic ( yeah right ) while trying to make the computational time reasonably brief.
At one point the program was complete, but then I decided to make a few more changes. Right now the program is in something of a ( not quite working ) transitional form.
If you’re interested you can get the admittedly rather messy java code for the program here: