{"id":227333,"date":"2025-12-17T17:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/one-and-done-is-not-enough-study-challenges-traditional-evolutionary-research"},"modified":"2025-12-17T17:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:05:29","slug":"one-and-done-is-not-enough-study-challenges-traditional-evolutionary-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/one-and-done-is-not-enough-study-challenges-traditional-evolutionary-research","title":{"rendered":"One and done is not enough: Study challenges traditional evolutionary research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/one-and-done-is-not-enough-study-challenges-traditional-evolutionary-research.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every living being must cope with a changing world\u2014summer gives way to winter, one year it floods and the next is a drought. It\u2019s obvious that populations of plants and animals must constantly face new challenges, says University of Vermont scientist Csenge Petak. But what\u2019s not obvious is how these changes in the environment affect evolution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo populations benefit from lots of environmental fluctuations, making new generations more prepared to face future changes,\u201d she wondered, \u201cor are they impaired, forced to readapt again and again, never reaching the heights of fitness that the same populations in a stable environment could achieve?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To explore this question, she and University of Vermont computer scientist Lapo Frati\u2014as well as two other UVM researchers and one at the University of Cambridge\u2014developed a first-of-its-kind study using a powerful computer model that tracks thousands of generations of digital organisms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every living being must cope with a changing world\u2014summer gives way to winter, one year it floods and the next is a drought. It\u2019s obvious that populations of plants and animals must constantly face new challenges, says University of Vermont scientist Csenge Petak. But what\u2019s not obvious is how these changes in the environment affect [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}