aka Evolutionary computation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_computation

Evo computing Beastiary

See Evolution

Computational intelligence - Scholarpedia

Evolution of evolvability Slides

Complexity compression and evolution

Genetic programming

They work by combining concepts that have been useful in the past to generate promising new trial solutions

Evolvable harware

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolvable_hardware

Whatever happened to evolvable hardware?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconfigurable_computing

Automated Antenna Design with Evolutionary Algorithms

Artifical life

http://www.framsticks.com/

Logos sotware from MIT for agent-based simulation and others

Nils Aall Barricelli

Conway's game of life

http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Game_of_Life

Automata theory, cellular automata.

Smooth cellular automata: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJe9H6qS82I

Life in life, meta

ASCII fluid dynamics

Benefits of Sexual Reproduction in Evolutionary Computation