MSU pioneers new course: Digital introduction to biology, evolution

(Michigan State University) Michigan State University researchers have improved an introductory biology class to make it more accessible for students not majoring in life sciences. The new course, 'Integrative Biology: From DNA to Populations,' features Avida-ED, a digital evolution software program that allows populations of digital organisms, aka Avidians, to undergo actual, not simulated, evolutionary change.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - Category: Biology Source Type: news