Thursday, February 17, 2005

Carl Zimmer

This week I 'discovered' the work of Carl Zimmer. He writes science related essays and books, especially on the subject of evolution. His latest article, Testing Darwin, appeared in Discover magazine this month.

The article primarily covers the Digital Evolution Laboratory's digital life simulator called Avida. The goal of Avida is to make it easier and faster to study evolutionary concepts, both digital and biological. Its quite fascinating how they are able to demonstrate or duplicate many biological concepts using the software.

Carl also has a popular blog that seems very interesting.

Labels: