Platforms evo-edu.org

Interactive tools for exploring evolution, ecology, systems, evidence, and model-based reasoning.

Interactive platforms

Interactive tools for grounded exploration of evolutionary and ecological ideas.

These platforms let learners and teachers work directly with change over time, evidence, systems, selection, biodiversity, and optimization. The goal is not just to launch an app, but to give users an active way to investigate concepts, compare outcomes, and build more grounded understanding through exploration.

11 Interactive platforms currently available for public use.
18 Additional legacy, planned, internal, or still-being-remediated app directories.
Hands-on experience Use simulations, interactive models, and exploration tools to connect concepts to observable outcomes.
Learning support Published tools are being paired with study guides, curriculum alignment, provenance, and better public framing.

Population genetics and population change

population genetics

Allele Tracker

Explore how drift, selection, mutation, and migration change allele frequencies over time.

An interactive population-genetics tool for comparing forces that shape variation and evolutionary change.

population genetics

Gene Flow Mapper

Explore how movement, distance, and barriers shape gene flow across landscapes.

An interactive landscape-genetics tool for investigating dispersal, fragmentation, and population structure.

Ecology and environmental dynamics

ecology

Climate Range Shifter

Explore how shifting climate conditions can move habitats and reshape where organisms can persist.

An interactive climate-and-range-change model for comparing mismatch, movement, and environmental response.

ecology

EcoBalance

Explore predator-prey dynamics, feedback, stability, and collapse in changing ecological systems.

An interactive ecology model for comparing cycles, constraints, intervention, and system behavior over time.

ecology

Life Cycle Modeler

Explore how survival and reproduction at different life stages change the future of a population.

An interactive life-history and demography tool for comparing growth, decline, vulnerability, and persistence.

Artificial life and evolutionary computation

artificial life

Cumulative Selection Explorer

Compare cumulative selection with random change and see how repeated choice reshapes outcomes.

A classic selection demo reframed as a tool for exploring variation, selection, and the limits of simple models.

artificial life

Digital Evolution Lab

Run digital evolution experiments to explore mutation, selection, adaptation, and evidence from evolving systems.

The evo-edu public entry point into Avida-ED and related digital-evolution learning materials.

artificial life

Network Builder

Explore how search and optimization can build shorter, more efficient networks from the same set of points.

An interactive network-design tool for comparing efficiency, tradeoffs, and optimization strategies.

artificial life

Route Optimizer

Explore route finding through iterative search and watch better solutions emerge over generations.

An interactive optimization tool for comparing routes, heuristics, and generational improvement in a TSP-style problem.

artificial life

Shape Evolver

Explore how small inherited changes and repeated selection can reshape evolving forms.

An interactive biomorph-style tool for exploring variation, inheritance, constraint, and visible change over time.

Research support and extension

research support

Literature Explorer

Extend a topic through literature search, bibliography growth, and evidence-trail building.

A research-support tool for finding related literature, building reading lists, and expanding bibliographies with CiteGeist support.

Status: Planned public surface.