Biological adaptation under natural and anthropogenic conditions

该项目涵盖所有四个国家优先领域。自然界充满了对个人或更大实体(人口、社会或物种)有益的东西之间的冲突。对它们的研究将解释为什么人们适应或未能适应新的条件(例如气候变化)，并预测干预措施何时有益。类似的规则也适用于入侵物种的传播。即使是健康问题，例如人类、动物或植物疾病的新毒株，也需要这种进化思维。尖端的数学工具也为澳大利亚人为不久的将来做好了准备，在这个时代，获取基因组数据的成本如此之低，以至于复杂数学和逻辑分析方面的培训成为限制科学进步的一个因素。

This project covers all four national priority areas. Nature abounds with conflicts between what is good for the individual or a larger entity (a population, a society, or a species). Researching them will explain why populations adapt or fail to adapt to novel conditions (e.g., climate change) and predict when interventions are beneficial. Similar rules govern the spread of invasive species. Even health problems, e.g., new virulent strains of human, animal or plant diseases, require such evolutionary thinking. Cutting-edge mathematical tools also prepare Australians for an era in the near future where genomic data are so cheap to acquire that training in complex mathematical and logical analysis becomes a factor limiting scientific progress.