Questions on Kelly ch 14-15

1) pp. 283-4 How did the rainforest butterflys help illustrate Tom Ray’s dissatisfaction with ecology?

2) Pp. 285-6 What is Tierra?

3) Pp 287-9 What surprising results did Ray find?

4) Pp 290-294 Describe John Holland’s Genetic Algorithm approach

5) 294-6 What was Danny Hillis’ contribution to artificial evolution?

6) 299-302 How might biotechnology use artificial evolution?

7) 302-6 How did David Ackly improve on Nature’s evolution?

8) 306-7 What are “ant algorithms?”

9) 308-311 What do evolutionary programmers see as the future of software?