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Collaborative Research: Probing the Diversity of Adaptive Paths and the Repeatability of Co-evolution

US NSF grant open #nsf-2529576

Summary

Evolution is the process by which species change over time and adapt to their environment. However, understanding and predicting evolution is difficult because its course is neither completely random nor completely pre-determined. In other words, if we “rewound the tape of life” and “replayed” it, the outcomes of evolution would likely be different, but not totally random. How repeatable evolution is depends in part on how an organism interacts with other species through competition for resources, nutrient exchange, predation, etc. This project uses laboratory experiments to study how interact

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