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Numsgil:
I was thinking Canabilism too.  It's one of the few traits that has existed in all incarnations of Darwinbots.  Big Berthas (non reproducing bots that just get bigger and bigger) and other traits seem to have died off as the program became more complex.

EricL:
What would be really cool is if we could show the evolution of a more sophisitcated meachanism for conspec recognition from a less sophsiticated one because of the advantage of doing so.    Or perhaps the evolution of a different one - using myshoot instead of myeye.... so you could prey on your cousins without them fighting back...

Numsgil:
For conspec recognition to not only not break but get better I imagine you'd need a way to provide periodic outside predation.

shvarz:
Good idea, but this is a lot of work.  I'd start by reading some current literature and seeing what topics are hot and what kinds of questions are being asked.  Then you'd be in the position to formulate a specific question that can be addressed in DBs.

This seems to be a good paper by the way: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.f...t_uids=16393455

Too bad I don't have free access to this particular journal.  You may send an e-mail to the author and ask for a pdf copy.  It used to be a common practice with paper reprints, I'm not sure if that's allowed for pdfs.

This paper looks like a similr thing to what we would want to do, describe the program and give some examples: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.f...t_uids=16386355
I don't have access to it either

Numsgil:
I might have access at school.  I'll see if I can pull them up.

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