Simulating the Evolution of Multicellularity

The legend says that Dylan Cope returned after his loyal cultists the Sapling dev, Adapt dev, Simulife Hub(foo52) and the Bibites dev summoned him from the dead.

Amazing work! Glad to see a new video! I literally said "Wow!" when you showed off the inter-cell gene regulatory network. Amazing!

This is a fantastic simulation of Evo-Devo, However I wanted to add something. The Salamander/Axolotl test, the reason why this happens is in Mexico, the caves lacked Iodine. Iodine is a very important chemical for Amphibian Development, its what allows for maturation to complete (Axolotls are Salamanders that basically are stuck in puberty because they don't get iodine). I wonder how removing a growth hormone affects evolution, and reintroducing that hormone back after speciation as occured. Like imagine if the Axolotl found a way to enter the salamander stage without Iodine, now give it iodine again. The machinery should still be present, would this cause multiple "growth" stages to occur?

Time to watch the yearly upload!

I watched the previous evolution video today. (I actually rewatched it for like 20th time after I got back to my own evolution program starting basically from scratch). This video release caught me by a surprise I have to say, a really nice surprise

Omg, i just posted some days ago to pls continue this, and after over a year, you returned! ❤

This network on them is amazing! It’s definitely the most thoughtful evolution simulation I have seen on YouTube, I thought it is “Bibites” earlier. Good luck with the project!

I hope you can make more videos on this project! Even if you don't have many updates, I'd just like to see what can evolve in this!

The amount of complexity you were able to put into that simulator and still make it stable is incredible. All my attempts, even the simplest ones, on creating evolution, always turned into pure chaos.

The Legend has returned!

He's frigging back! I had nearly lost hope, but the great Dylan Cope has graced us with his amazing content once again!

I was laying in bed for the last few hours, unable to sleep, thinking about creating eerily similar simulation. I finally got out of bed, opened youtube, and this is the first video I've seen, lol. I love it!

I really hope to see more work done with gene regulatory networks and similar mechanisms in evolutionary computation. It always feels like evolution in these systems is less flexible than you'd hope, and anything providing improvements to the reuse and repurposing of functional components seems like a promising direction.

he's back boys

Im so happy for another installment! Not enough evolutionary simulator content on YT

Really interesting. I'm glad these kinds of simulations are being created... Definitely will be following the project!

He’s back! Can’t wait for more

Wow, literally only found the first vid yesterday, how lucky is that

THE GOAT RETURNS

Once again, very cool project. I do wonder if evolution can take advantage of all the solution space that you created. These videos need a Natural Geographic section 😅