1. Artificial Life The process of creating synthetic biology on computers to study, simulate and understand living systems systems.

2. Karl Sims

3. This image shows a "parent" in the upper left corner, and the remaining 11 are "offspring" from that parent. Mutations cause various differences between the offspring and their parents.

5. Swimming Competing FollowingHopping The creatures shown are results from many independent simulations in which they were selected for swimming, walking, jumping, following, and competing for control of a green cube.