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“Could life evolve on the Internet?” is the question raised in a recent article on Wired.com.

The answer of course depends on one’s definition of life, which is remarkably narrow for most people: if it doesn’t look like any of the life-forms here on earth, it isn’t really alive.

Smartly sidestepping this discussion, one could ask: “is evolution possible on the Internet?”. To which my answer would be: yes.

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