# A Simple Model of the Evolution of Simple Models of Evolution

## Acknowledgments

The authors thank Marc Abrahams and Nigel Snoad for helpful discussion, and Prof. Per Bak for providing a continual source of inspiration. CRS thanks Prof. David Griffeath and the undergraduate students at Madison for providing financial support, and Prof. Yuri Klimontovich, whose book (Klimontovich (1990)) first alerted him to the possibilities of simple models of evolution by physicists. WAT has already thanked an undisclosed set of people of analytically determined size, and expects eventually to be thanked by others in kind due simply to expansionary propagation of that original thankfulness (described in a subsequent paper, now in preparation).