Evolvability and the Evolution of Complexity

可进化性和复杂性的进化

• 批准号: DP1097048
• 负责人: Prof Kim Sterelny
• 金额: $ 18.58万
• 依托单位: The Australian National University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2010-03-31 至 2013-09-22
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP1097048
• 关键词: Evolvability; Evolution; Complexity

Anyone engaging in a moment's reflection on the striking richness, diversity, and complexity of the biological world is faced with the question: how did it get here? Though natural selection is central to answering this question, important new work has identified various conditions that make some lineages of organisms "evolvable": capable of changing in ways that radically expand the range of further possible changes. This project will clarify and integrate these various conditions using empirical examples and simple models. The resulting work from this project will provide a clearer general understanding of what biological complexity is, and how science has compelling candidates for understanding how it evolves.

任何一个思考生物世界惊人的丰富性、多样性和复杂性的人都面临着这样一个问题：它是如何来到这里的？虽然自然选择是回答这个问题的核心，但重要的新工作已经确定了使某些生物谱系“可进化”的各种条件：能够以从根本上扩大进一步可能变化范围的方式发生变化。本项目将使用经验实例和简单模型来澄清和整合这些不同的条件。该项目的成果将使人们更清楚地了解生物复杂性是什么，以及科学如何有令人信服的候选人来理解它如何进化。