In this paper we introduce a new species of evolution algebras that we call Cayley evolution algebras. We show that if a field $$\Bbbk $$
k
contains sufficiently many elements (for example if $$\Bbbk $$
k
is infinite) then every finite group G is isomorphic to $${\text {Aut}}(X)$$
Aut
(
X
)
where X is a finite-dimensional absolutely simple Cayley evolution $$\Bbbk $$
k
-algebra.