Vincent Liard, David Parsons, Jonathan Rouzaud-Cornabas and Guillaume Beslon (Beagle Team) received the Best Paper Award at the ALife 2018 conference in Tokyo in July 2018. ALife (International Conference on Artificial Life) is the main conference on artificial life. This price awards the team's work on the evolution of complexity (Vincent Liard, David P. Parsons, Jonathan Rouzaud-Cornabas and Guillaume Beslon, The Complexity Ratchet: Stronger than selection, weaker than robustness, https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/isal_a_00051).