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This particular subject interests me to no end.

Here are a few resources that might be helpful to anyone interested

https://www.complexityexplorer.org/

http://web.mit.edu/redingtn/www/netadv/Xcomplexit.html

http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~simon/page6/page6.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_life

https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Life-Frontier-Computers-Bi...

Evolutionarily beneficial to eat your own children? Could you explain how?

It didn't work in the long run but it was a common mutation in the early game, where two creatures would keep breeding and cannibalizing because the strange simulation environment gave them life energy for a long time.

I played a similar game on the Tandy computer in the 80s.