CAREER: Understanding and Harnessing the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Evolution with Micr — NSF Award to Regents of the Universit
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 hypoth
| Award title | CAREER: Understanding and Harnessing the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Evolution with Micr |
|---|---|
| Award ID | 2540912 |
| Awardee | Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor |
| City | ANN ARBOR |
| State | MI |
| Amount obligated | $1,347,258 |
| Principal investigator | Luis Zaman |
| Program | Evo Patterns & Processes |
| Start date | 06/01/2026 |
| Abstract | 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 m |
| Source | NSF Awards |
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