"How do extreme injury recovery costs (200x slow-healing) shape long-term cognitive, genetic, and social evolution under scarcity?"
KEY FINDINGS
🧠 Cognitive Paradox: Colony Delta displayed the highest initial prediction accuracy (95.0%), yet underwent earliest extinction (Year 45) due to severe topographical exposure at (552, 304).
🧬 Single-Lineage Monopoly: A single founder lineage (#5) achieved 100% population dominance by Year 600, despite active mutation remaining enabled throughout the 905-year run.
💧 Hydration Paradox: Beta Colony accumulated a 55.5-million-unit water stockpile, yet 83.2% of dehydration deaths occurred while agents were actively carrying water in inventory.
🔄 Altruism Reversal: Resource-sharing allele frequency peaked at 0.675 (+19%) at Year 100, but later underwent a -57% reversal as population hit carrying capacity.
⛺ Infrastructure Ceiling: 98.9% of agents remained at Level 1 (Tent) shelter for 905 years without advancing to stone structures, suppressed by injury recovery energy costs.
Research Abstract
In this 326,075-tick (~905 simulated years) continuous simulation experiment, we investigated the long-term evolutionary, cognitive, and social dynamics of synthetic agent populations subjected to a severe physiological stressor: a 200× reduction in bodily injury healing rate (healing_speed_multiplier = 200.0) under high resource scarcity (scarcity = 3.0). Across 38 generations and 3,042 cumulative births, the population exhibited an evolutionary trajectory characterized by extreme behavioral conservatism, culminating in a 100% single-lineage monopoly by Year 600.
Experiment Highlights
Extinction Status
SURVIVED (201/3042)
Ticks Simulated
326,075
Genetic Diversity
0.2927
Max Generation
Gen 38
Open Research Questions
Scientific hypothesis agenda driving longitudinal experiments. Questions evolve from open inquiry to empirical validation.
Category:
Status:
RQ-EXP2-001Evolution & Selection●Investigating(Directive for GEN-EXP-0003 (Slow-Healing Under Neutral Scarcity 1.0))
Priority: Critical
Isolation of Healing Speed vs. Resource Scarcity
RQ-EXP2-002Genetics & Diversity●Open(Directive for GEN-EXP-0004 (Immigration Control))
Priority: High
Evolutionary Recovery from Genetic Monopoly
RQ-EXP2-003Emergent Infrastructure●Open(Directive for GEN-EXP-0005 (Accelerated Construction))
Priority: High
Infrastructure Advancement & Labor Surplus
Cite this Research Record
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Khosya, V. (2026). GEN-EXP-0002: Evolution Under Extreme Slow-Healing. Project Genesis, Experiment GEN-EXP-0002, Version 9.2.0. Genesis Research Platform. Retrieved from https://genesis.vinaykhosya.com/archive/civilizations/GEN-EXP-0002
