FiddleToRome's Journal: Evolving past programming

http://www.carlzimmer.com/articles/2005/articles_2005_Avida.html

That is truly awesome. What's more, we talked about a similar computer program that came out years ago in my biology course a few weeks ago (granted that one was not supposed to do what it ended up doing). This is more complex and cooler (more believable, too; I know the teacher said it was made commercial and well-known about and all, but I don't know, the way he explained it didn't seem plausible to me at the time -- perhaps I shall investigate furthur).