Press Release

December 20, 2001

Digenetics, Inc. Launches "Evolutionary Checkers starring Blondie24: Checkers with an Attitude!" at the Computer Fair in Buena Park

La Jolla, CA -- Doug Johnson, chief executive officer of Digenetics, Inc., and Dr. David Fogel, chief scientist of Digenetics, Inc. and CEO of Natural Selection, Inc.^®, are pleased to announce that Digenetics, Inc. will be launching its public distribution of the new game "Evolutionary Checkers starring Blondie24: Checkers with an Attitude!" at the Computer Fair in Buena Park, California, this weekend. The fair runs both Saturday and Sunday. The public is encouraged to come by the Digenetics, Inc. booth and play the game, which is selling for a holiday special price of just $20 including sales tax. Gift-wrapped games will also be available at no additional charge.

Digenetics, Inc., a sister company of Natural Selection, Inc., is dedicated to advancing the art of evolutionary entertainment software. Digenetics, Inc. develops and publishes entertainment software based on the Beyond Intelligence™ concept that uses evolutionary computation technology to provide continually novel intelligent opponents and characters in games. Digenetics, Inc.'s first product is "Evolutionary Checkers starring Blondie24: Checkers with an Attitude!" which builds from the successful research conducted by Dr. David Fogel and Kumar Chellapilla of Natural Selection, Inc., in which a computer program evolved itself into an expert checkers player. Other games and concepts are under development. For more information, please visit www.digenetics.com.

Natural Selection, Inc.^® was founded in 1993 to address complex problems in industry, medicine, and defense. The company possesses unique expertise in computational intelligence techniques, including evolutionary computation, neural networks, and fuzzy logic. The corporation's research efforts support the discovery of new pharmaceuticals, the automated detection and discovery of important patterns and processes in bioinformatics and medical informatics, computer-assisted diagnosis, and a variety of military and industrial projects.

For more information, please contact:

Dr. David B. Fogel
President
Natural Selection, Inc.
9330 Scranton Road
Suite 150
San Diego, CA, 92121
tel: (858) 455-6449
fax: (858) 455-1560
dfogel [at] natural-selection.com

and please visit our website at http://www.natural-selection.com.