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In digital art there has been a reoccurring theme of Artificial life, in which the artist creates project which emulates life in the real world. One of these projects in the Galapagos, in this work the users selects artificial lifeforms, and through natural selection is able to stimulate the lifeforms mutations and the computer generates the ability of evolution over hundred of years, allowing to see what the user has created over the course of time. This Artificial life takes a virtual turn as it uses computers to break down basic behaviors and actions in mathematical patterns and produce them on the same level.