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Concept and Creation
The "Evolutionary Function" was an additional feature Albedo added to the Ultimatrix after stealing it from Azmuth. According to Dwayne McDuffie, the Evolutionary Function works by placing the DNA of the alien in a certain simulation, making it suffer the worst possible scenario in millions of theoretical years, evolving the alien.

This "survival of the fittest" method of evolving the aliens makes the Ultimates more suited for combat. When Azmuth saw the modified Ultimatrix for the first time, one of his complaints about it was that the Evolutionary Function was "begging for trouble".