Continent · region

Life

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 (5 problems)
Origins (4 problems)
Development and aging (3 problems)

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