Biology

Biology is a Science that is used by the FaerieMUD world to generate and manage virtual populations of flora and fauna.

<blockquote><i>An ecology (note that all ecologies are interconnected) is another example of a complex system with emergent qualities. (Note that economies </i>and<i> ecologies are components of the same global system.) Predators and prey keep one another in check; trees and underbrush, hosts and parasites, heat and gases and fluids and soils interact incalculably to produce a system that persists very well over time in a kind of dynamic equilibrium. These complex systems are resilient; that is, if they are perturbed, they return to balance. This is a feature that we earlier described as "animate," a feature of life: </i>graceful degradation<i> or even complete recovery in the face of disruption. Any individual in an economy may experience failure. Any organism in an ecological environment might be uprooted or killed. Whole species may become extinct. Volcanoes, hurricanes, stock market crashes may result in devastation, but the system repairs itself and returns to a stable state -- without central control.</i> — James Kennedy and Russell C. Eberhart in Swarm Intelligence

— Scotus - 07 Nov 2001