Some people don’t like to think about evolution, but others so enjoy doing it that they think about the evolution of evolution. The model for this—really for modeling models of this, is a study written in 1999:
“A Simple Model of the Evolution of Simple Models of Evolution,” Cosma Rohilla Shalizi and William A. Tozier, arXiv:adap-org/9910002 v1 15 Oct 1999. The authors explain:
“In the spirit of the many recent simple models of evolution inspired by statistical physics, we put forward a simple model of the evolution of such models. Like its objects of study, it is (one supposes) in principle testable and capable of making predictions, and gives qualitative insights into a hitherto mysterious process.”
BONUS: some further adventures of Cosma Shalizi