Summary
One of the deepest mysteries in biology is how life has become so astonishingly complex, which is hard to ignore when looking around at the remarkable biodiversity on earth. Scientists know that evolution is ultimately responsible, but they don't fully understand what fuels the apparent drive for complexity. One hypothesis is that when species face an antagonistic push-and-pull interaction with one another, like between populations of hosts and their parasites, evolution speeds up and produces more novelty than when organisms are simply adapting to a changing environment. This project investig
