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Life in a Barrel
Radiolab
The Computers Picking Bloops at Random
Computer simulations of evolution look remarkably like the actual fossil record. Mollusks, tralobites and snails all start here then die there. The computer programme is programmed to pick a species at random. Then it runs bloop after bloop through this programme over millions of years. It's just bloopslep, bleep. E and they cold. Just now they could go forward, and they can go to the next stage. So number one, as nothing happens, you move on. Number two, you can change evolved speciet. Or the third thing that can happen is by by blop, dead, extinct, dead forever.
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