This may interest you-http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/P.Bentley/igdigitalbiology/-Peter J. Bentley of UCL was one of the speakers in the "Dear Darwin" series of letters to Darwin, broadcast on BBC Radio and recently repeated, supposedly informing Darwin of what scientists are doing with his ideas. -Bentley is involved in using the principles of natural selection in "evolutionary design" of engineering, among other projects.