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Through repeated design "generations" that the researchers likened to Darwinian evolution, their computer sought the "fittest" offspring--ones that could crawl the farthest in a given time. One creation shuffled along like a crab. Another left markings in the sand with its snakelike contractions. The best design turned out to be a pyramidal-shaped creature that pushed itself along with a shovel-like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Robot Out of Cyberspace | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...Survival of the Fittest...

Author: By Shira H. Fischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Three's a Crowd: New Student Groups Struggle To Carve Niche | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...rejects Darwin's survival of the fittest, Adam Smith's laissez-faire and Karl Marx's thesis of a natural antagonism between capital and labor, and focuses on the interdependence between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sacred Warrior | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

HEALTH Where Americans are fattest and fittest, measured by obesity rates, exercise and number of fast-food joints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indicators: Dec. 27, 1999 | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...Fittest cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indicators: Dec. 27, 1999 | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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