This is the official University of Minnesota Populus Git Repository.

Populus is a package of educational software allowing students to manipulate ecological and evolutionary models, producing graphical representations of their dynamics. It also contains an integrated help system discussing each of the models. Please go to https://cbs.umn.edu/populus/ for more information about Populus.

Don Alstad
Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
University of Minnesota
1987 Upper Buford Circle
St. Paul, MN 55108-6097

Installers will be available on the main Populus page, https://cbs.umn.edu/populus/.

To build and run from source, use the gradle wrapper in the top directory:

$ ./gradlew bootRun

If you are using JDK 14 or later, you can also create installer/packager for the operating system type you are running on:

$ ./gradlew jpackage

The images and installers will be in the build directory.

Note that for Windows, you'll need to run gradlew.bat instead, and need to install WiX to package.

If you find bugs, irregularities, places for improvement, or have other comments, please email [email protected].

Spanish translations of some of the more basic models are provided. We would be interested in corresponding with people who would be able to help with other translations. If interested, please email [email protected].

Java versions: Amos Anderson, Lars Roe, Sharareh Noorbaloochi
DOS versions: Chris Bratteli