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Replicator Molecules

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Callum
Rogers
This was my first foray into trying to create a system that models particles, specifically molecules. After reading the first chapter of Richard Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene", I tried to model the "replicator molecules" he described; these are ones that elements' join up to other elements and once a complete set of elements are collected another indentical molecules is created. Slowly, due to random mutations, they would evolve leaving only the strongest molecules. However, the complexity grew too great and now I realise this was a difficult way to create such a model, so I abandoned the proj
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