Computer Simulation of Evolution : Genetic and "Memetic" Ways

Experience of evolutionary simulation is described in the article. The first presented program simulates the macroevolution of Chordata animals inside the space with different environments. Darwinian regulations of mutating and competition were set at the initial program version, but the model shows this is not enough to explain known particularities of biological evolution. Another model demonstrates that the evolutionary stability of species is a consequence of prohibitions on some types of evolutionary modifications. Our new simulation uses alike principles as the above but this model concerns the evolution of the human ethno-populations. The central feature, which distinguishes the man evolution from other cases, is that the interaction between man-populations and environment is controlled by human culture.