digiLife: Educational

Explore evolution by creating life of your own. digiLife Education Edition is an interactive digital-organism simulator designed to make concepts from biology, evolution, ecology, and natural selection visible and experimentally accessible. Create an experiment, introduce populations into a virtual culture chamber, and watch an ecosystem develop. Organisms move, search for nutrients, grow, reproduce, compete, age, and die while inherited traits pass from one generation to the next. Mutations can change traits such as metabolism, growth, size, lifespan, environmental preferences, and reproductive success. Over generations, selection can transform a population as organisms encounter competition and changing environmental conditions. Organisms can also evolve specialized innovations. These include nutrient sensing, chemical communication, environmental sensing, defensive structures,…