# Life

- kind: region

*Settled by: Experiment on evolved systems.*

Systems that copy themselves with variation and so were shaped by selection rather than designed. Biology's great solved problems read the code; its open ones ask how the code builds bodies, how it began, and why it wears out.

## Problem spaces

- [Heredity and the code](/wiki/Space:heredity.md) (5 problems)
- [Origins](/wiki/Space:origins-of-life.md) (4 problems)
- [Development and aging](/wiki/Space:development-aging.md) (3 problems)

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