Hedgehogs, hedgehog, 17 species of hedgehog in five genera. A hedgehog is any of the spiny mammals of the subfamily Erinaceinae, which is in order Erinaceomorpha. There are found in Europe, Asia, Africa and New Zealand (by introduction). There are no hedgehogs native to Australia, nor the Americas.
Simulated Evolution is the umbrella name for a set of projects focused on using agent-based modeling to explore and learn about evolutionary processes.
My PhD work is in simulated biology. I had two projects, one that was largely in the field of computer science the other computational chemistry. The first, simulates organisms in a virtual CPU assembly that exist in an environment that had positive and negative feedback.