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Abstract

Evolution can be employed for two goals. Firstly, to provide a force for adaptation to the environment as it does in nature and in many artificial life implementations - this allows the evolving population to survive. Secondly, evolution can provide a force for optimisation as is mostly seen in evolutionary robotics research - this causes the robots to do something useful. We propose the MONEE algorithmic framework as an approach to combine these two facets of evolution: to combine environment-driven and task-driven evolution. To achieve this, MONEE employs environment-driven and task-based parent selection schemes in parallel.