THE WEAKEST LINK

replace the least fit, and evolution organises itself

THE RULE

Species sit on a ring, each with a fitness in [0, 1]. Every step the least-fit species and its two neighbours are replaced with random fitnesses.

Tap the ring to knock out a cluster of species. The same ?seed= always gives the same run.

WHAT IS CLAIMED

LITThe Bak–Sneppen model (1993), fc ≈ 0.667. Every 30 steps the fitnesses must lie in [0, 1) and the minimum must be the true minimum, or the page throws.

WALLA toy of self-organised criticality, not a model of the fossil record.

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