Evolution is usually a slow, arduous process and while it's responsible for many of the things that make you you, it's rare that you get a chance to see it in action. The work of Armand Leroi and his colleagues at Imperial College London doesn't give you an opportunity to see evolution in action, but rather gives you a chance to hear it. Through the use of a computer program that can generate random noise and then combine it with more random noise, Leroi and his team were able to evolve sonic chaos into tunes that, while not transcendant, are certainly listenable, and even downright pleasant. Welcome to DarwinTunes.
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