Predicting Evolution’s Next Best Move With Simulator
Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 22:21
in Astronomy & Space
Biologists today are doing what Darwin thought impossible. They are studying the process of evolution not through fossils but directly, as it is happening. Now, by modeling the steps evolution takes to build, from scratch, an adaptive biochemical network, biophysicists have gone one step further. Instead of watching evolution in action, they show that they can predict its next best move.