Introduction

• What do we know and what do we believe?
• Nature is Wonderful
  • The code of life: DNA
  • The working unit: the Cell
  • Division of labour and growth: Multicellularity
• How did nature get to this Perfection?
• Should we try to copy nature?
• What has been done until now
  • Simulating natural processes: Artificial Life
    • Phylogeny
    • Multicellularity
    • Gene Regulation
    • Swarm Behaviour
  • Breeding problem solutions: Evolutionary Computation
    • Evolutionary Strategies and Evolutionary Programming
    • Genetic Algorithms
    • Genetic Programming