Artificial life seeks to recreate the core hallmarks of living systems—self-regeneration, evolvability and learning—using computational, biochemical or robotic media. By engineering lifelike processes ...

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Convergent adaptations represent paradigmatic examples of the capacity of natural selection to influence organisms’ biology. However, the possibility to investigate the genetic determinants ...