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EDITORIAL DRAFT · PARTIALLY SUPPORTED · V0.1

I tested whether higher food intake helped organisms with a new food-processing program, then followed their descendants. One family inherited both changes and later died out. Further comparisons ask whether a change helps when reproduction happens. Replication is pending; a disagreement between the raw file and report remains unresolved.

EDITORIAL DRAFT / OBSERVATION · PARTIALLY SUPPORTED · V0.1

AN OPPORTUNITY THAT VANISHED. This world tests two inherited changes: a program that processes new food, and a setting that increases food intake. In EX-12, keeping or undoing them showed that higher intake helped when the program was present. Yet another birth replaced that organism before it reproduced. Its original history ended without offspring.

CURATED THREAD / WORKING EDITION · V0.3

Six connected notes from a small evolutionary world: replay a birth, keep an ecology alive, test an improvement, follow an inheritance, and ask what survives the controls. Start with any question, or follow the whole experiment. The first three notes study movement and ecology; the next two use a new food-processing world. The closing note tests what the design itself made possible. These are different assays, not one continuous simulation. WHAT CHANGED HISTORY?. One birth explains a population shift. A replay can isolate a cause. Next, give evolution a world that keeps going. WHAT KEEPS IT ALIVE?. 11 of 12 worlds kept both species alive; no detected arms race. Survival gives evolution time. It leaves open what evolution can build. DOES ONE ADVANCE ENABLE ANOTHER?. Eight helpful changes; neither later sequence passed dependence. The movement test found no reliable dependence. A new food-processing world gives a capability something to unlock. CAN THE PIECES MAKE SOMETHING NEW?. One combination crossed the resource barrier; the later test had no eligible case. A capability appeared. Next, ask whether a useful change gets the chance to reach descendants. CAN AN ADVANTAGE BECOME HISTORY?. Both changes reached descendants. One family was eventually lost. Inheritance and conditional benefit were observed. The closing note asks how much of the opportunity the experimenter designed. WHO MADE THE NEXT STEP POSSIBLE?. The controls explained the apparent expansion in these worlds. The next question is what a world would need for usefulness to emerge from its own regularities. That programme has not been registered.