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Numsgil:
Cells involved in producing antibodies also invoke intentional mutations (albeit very specific ones) to try and come up with novel antibodies to fight an infection.  So it's definitely a sweet spot.  If your mutation rates are too low, you get out competed (assuming the environment isn't a perfect match to what you are now) by more adaptive species.  If it's too high, you lose traction with natural selection and turn to non coding goo.

Welwordion:
Its similar to science, doing experiments cost a lot of resources and time, your society (population) needs enough expandable resources (expandable individuals) in order to do the testruns and the better your test(more selective your conditions) the faster you will reach a result .
However what would help to speed up is a kind of lamarckian evolution, an individual testing different sets of gene expressions in order to then discard the failure genes and keep the succesful genes.

Also I recently read that horizontal gene transfer(between in dividuals) may play a larger role to evolution than thought until now, so if you give genes a way  to spread in a population that might also speed up your testing.
(actually that article http://www.physorg.com/news114185292.html is the reason I amback here want to test if an evosim with virusspreading fastens the evolutionary pace)

fulizer:
houh yes the edge of survival try smaller amounts of bots in a larger area that way the need to actively move to find your food will quilkly become apparent and eventually more efficient things will evolve.
this works for every alife I ever tried

Numsgil:
What other alife programs have you played with?

Welwordion:
There is yet another possibility to speed up evolution, to apply higher mutation rates at specified  places, that way you can keep a certain structure in genes while mutating specific thinks like conditions or values that are  stored, even in real Dna the ends of the chromosome have higher crossover probability so genes that have a higher need or tolerance for mutations are placed there.

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