
Genes you can inspect
Speed, vision, body size, metabolism, diet, caution and ideal temperature are inherited and mutate. Click any creature to see its genome, lineage and why it acts as it does.
Free online ecosystem & evolution simulator
Tiny creatures look for food, flee predators, breed and pass their genes on with small mutations. Change the rules and see which traits survive — generation after generation.
Free · Runs offline as an app · No account needed

Speed, vision, body size, metabolism, diet, caution and ideal temperature are inherited and mutate. Click any creature to see its genome, lineage and why it acts as it does.

Speed costs energy, big bodies need more food, sharp eyes cost upkeep. No trait wins everywhere, so the environment decides what spreads.

Adjust food regrowth, temperature, seasons, movement cost and mutation live. Every change is logged next to population and gene charts.

Worlds come from a seed, so a share link recreates the same starting conditions for friends, classes or your own A/B experiments.
Each tick, creatures check nearby food and danger and choose an action by priority: flee, hunt, eat, find a mate or rest.
Living, moving and sensing cost energy; eating plants or prey restores it. Run out and the creature dies.
With enough energy, creatures breed. Offspring inherit their parents' genes with random mutations — selection does the rest.
Start from a calm garden, isolated islands, harsh scarcity, predators and prey, changing seasons, a mutation storm or sexual reproduction.

Even food everywhere. A calm baseline to learn how energy, breeding and mutation interact.

Rich food islands separated by barren water. Will isolated groups drift apart?

Food is rare and moving is expensive. Every trait has to pay for itself.

Hunters stalk grazers. Watch population cycles and an arms race between speed and caution.

Warm- and cold-adapted groups face a yearly temperature swing and a north–south gradient.

Very high mutation. Diversity explodes — but can selection keep up?
Yes. It runs entirely in your browser at no cost and can be installed as an app for offline use.
It is an abstract, rule-based simulation designed to make natural selection visible and explorable. It is not a prediction of real ecosystems, and the creatures are not conscious.
No. Saves are stored in your own browser, and you can export them as JSON files.
Yes. Share links recreate the same world for every student, which makes it easy to compare what different settings do.
Any modern browser on desktop, tablet or phone. Desktop handles the largest populations best.