Not in my backyard: a simulation of the effects of agent mobility on environmental poisoning

Evolve IV is an individual-based metabolically driven evolutionary ecosystem model that captures the reciprocal relationship between biota and their environment. In one series of experiments with Evolve IV, the initial population modifies the environment to its own disadvantage, i.e., it pollutes. Eventually a new nonpolluting population emerges. The length of time taken for this evolutionary learning is affected by the initial population´s level of mobility