Comments on: The Immortal Gene https://www.isegoria.net/2016/02/the-immortal-gene/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 31 May 2026 02:04:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: James James https://www.isegoria.net/2016/02/the-immortal-gene/comment-page-1/#comment-2456189 James James Tue, 02 Feb 2016 14:18:19 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=39738#comment-2456189 It was called “Biomorphs”. There is an online implementation.

]]> By: Bob Sykes https://www.isegoria.net/2016/02/the-immortal-gene/comment-page-1/#comment-2456187 Bob Sykes Tue, 02 Feb 2016 13:54:25 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=39738#comment-2456187 Dawkins wrote a small program to illustrate the effects of natural selection that came with the book. It was quite clever. It displayed a few dozen versions of some animal, say a bird, and you clicked on the one you like. You then got a few dozen modifications of your choice and could make another selection. Eventually you got something quite different.

The program ran on a Mac of several generations ago. To my knowledge, it has never been upgraded to the newer Macs. Someone should do it.

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