Using Evolution

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Using Evolution

• Dr. Robert Heckendorn
• University of Idaho

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"3 Billion B.C. The Earth is a swirling ball of
flaming gases. Fishing is extremely poor,
especially in August. --Cliff Hauptman The
Complete History of Fishing
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• Adaptive chemistry yields life

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• Single cells evolve

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Muticellular Life
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Life diversifies
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Warm bloodedDevelop language
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How did that happen?

• 15,000 BCE Domestication of animals
• Selective
• breeding

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Babbage - Mendel - Darwin

• Dec 26 1791, Charles Babbage, designer first
  computer, born
• Feb 12 1809, Charles Darwin, naturalist, born
  
• Jul 22 1822, Gregor Mendel, monk and founder of
  genetics, born
• Dec 27 1831, Charles Darwin sets sail on the
  Beagle
• Oct 2 1836, Charles Darwin returns from his
  voyage
• Nov 24 1859, Charles Darwin "Origin of Species
  published
• Oct 18 1871, Charles Babbage dies.
  
• Apr 19 1882, Charles Darwin dies
  
• Jan 6 1884, Gregor Mendel dies
  

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• Babbage envisions the computer but is unable to
  implement it with the technology of the day

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• Mendel discovers the particle nature of heredity

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• Natural selection and the origin of speices

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The Essentials

• Population
• Reproduction
• Variation
• Heredity
• Selection

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Population
Selection
Natural Evolution
Variation
Reproduction
Heredity
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Results of Selective Breeding
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Natural Evolution of Un-natural Things

• Languages
• Music
• Art
• Inventions
• Products

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Example Music
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Babbage - Mendel - Darwin
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Artificial Evolution

• Problem Break a simple substitution cipher
• Alphabet ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
• Key KUNDXQMCOZPYRIWGFJHATBLVES

DOGS AND CATS becomes DWMHKIDNKAH
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Heredity

• Alphabet ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
• Key KUNDXQMCOZPYRIWGFJHATBLVES

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Population
LXFYZESTNKWAPJGQRBMOVIDCHU BDKZPQELWFOTHVMXCRINUJS
GYA OIQHBUMPEXCTZAVRKLGDNJYWSF GCDUNMPBTWKYIVAXFEO
LSQJRZH STJNBWFGALMXIURCOZHPEDQYVK OSPQEDXYVWRGZNB
UCTALMHIFJK EVKIGTNBHFZALDUSCYWOJRQMXP ERSHVJPYOIC
ATNBXFDZLMQGUWK RWJFVSPQEGXYOIKDZNBUCTALMH OSGQEDP
YVFIMZNBRXTALHUKCJW LMUDWIFVSJPEGQYOKRXZNBHCTA . .

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Selection Reproduction

• Best keys are selected to reproduce
• New keys are constructed from old keys

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Variation

• Mutation swap two chars in key
• Crossover swap subsets of two keys to generate a
  new offspring key (making sure to avoid
  duplicate letters)

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Selection

• Key is evaluated for statistical similarity to
  English.
• Better keys have higher fitness

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Input

• jmtlm gotoj lvuvl xlbmg vazon pjbzz egjei vttjb
  nlvnm elbse
• vzhbg lonll blyet vdebd valon smtyb ieueg hbhmt
  olvbn qgbil
• ylgod dvjhg euenl vnqpv abgqo nvwep ybmav nqgea
  lbgol vbnbd
• yvalb gvjsm vtpvn qaonp htonn vnqog pzblb gioxl
  gonav lvbnl
• blyes bahyb gmajb nlvnm elbse vaame apovt xtvde
  vnval onsmt
• vajbt bgdmt onpuv sgonl onpjb nlvnm eaavp esxav
  peivl yzonx
• joged mttxh gblej lepgb zonsx wonlv neonp lmgrv
  ayzbn mzenl
• avalo nsmtv abdle njbna vpege plyej ohvlo tbdlm
  grexv nlegz
• abdjb zzegj eenle glovn zenlj mtlmg eepmj olvbn
  aybhh vnqlb
• mgvaz onpog lzbge lyony otdbd lyehb hmtol vbntv
  ueaon pibgr
• abnly eemgb heona vpely etogq enmzs egbdh ebhte
  tvuvn qvnly
• egeav penlv otoge oabnl yeono lbtvo navpe maesg
  vpqea onpde
• ggvea lbjbz zmlel bibgr vnojv lxlyo lyoas eenly
  ezbal hbhmt

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Evolve!
165 nshasothtnauzuabarsouletimnreefonfvuhhnriau
isfargfueyroatiaa 266 cvsoversrcoubuowohveugkral
chkknecnzusschaouavnohdnuktheoraoo 367
vglrgsalavroforjregsonmauhvemmisvibollveurougireyi
omdesraurr 872 wfitfasiswtndntpthfanoysegwhyyraw
rmniiwhetnefrthurnyzhatsett 1478
bemtelamabtivitftoelisrangborrhlbhkimmbontinehtowh
irpoltantt 3902 fumtuwimiftexetptouwelsingfossawf
ajemmfontenuatocaesdowtintt 8649
yurtufiriytapatgtoufasmincyommefyejarryontanuetobe
amvoftintt 14103 ylrtlcaraytivitqtolcismangyommecy
ekirryontinletobeimuoctantt 14507
curtufirictavatltoufasmindcommefceyarrcontanuetobe
ampoftintt 14911 yurtularaytipitgtoulismancyommely
ewirryontinuetobeimvoltantt 25112
multuralamtixitvtourisbandmobbermewillmontinuetoke
ibcortantt 37838 culturalactikitytourismandcommerc
epillcontinuetogeimfortantt 39757
culturalactivitytourispandcoppercewillcontinuetoge
ipfortantt 42787 yulturalayticitvtourismandyommery
epillyontinuetokeimfortantt 42989
culturalactivitytouriswandcowwercemillcontinuetobe
iwfortantt 43090 culturalactivitytourismandcommerc
ewillcontinuetobeimportantt 67431
culturalactivitytourismandcommercewillcontinuetobe
importantt
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Actual Answer

• Cultural activity, tourism and commerce will
  continue to be important
• to the life of Istanbul. However, population
  growth, traffic,
• preventing disorganized housing, restoration of
  historic buildings and
• planning a 3rd motorway transition to the
  Bosphorus continue to be
• issues. Daily life in Istanbul is colorful and
  vibrant and continues
• side by side with many carefully protected Roman,
  Byzantine and

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The Black Box

• Only needed a fitness function to do selection.

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Many Opportunities for Research

• Coevolution and cooperation
• Preditor prey
• Bottlenecking
• Spatial structure
• Evolvability
• Practice
• Speciation
• Fitness/Repersentation/Operators

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Researchers

• Robert Heckendorn
• Terry Soule