{"id":85895,"date":"2018-12-16T17:02:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T01:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/evolution-saves-species-from-kill-the-winner-disasters"},"modified":"2018-12-16T17:02:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T01:02:48","slug":"evolution-saves-species-from-kill-the-winner-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/evolution-saves-species-from-kill-the-winner-disasters","title":{"rendered":"Evolution Saves Species From \u2018Kill the Winner\u2019 Disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/evolution-saves-species-from-kill-the-winner-disasters.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019But they noticed an unrealistic defect in the calculations that had traditionally been used in models to validate the KTW idea: They \u201cdescribed populations as if individuals did not exist. It\u2019s as if we described a liquid without acknowledging atoms,\u201d Goldenfeld explained by email.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Modelers find evidence that a combination of competition, predation and evolution will push ecosystems toward species diversity anywhere in the universe.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/evolution-saves-species-from-kill-the-winner-disasters-20180212\">https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/evolution-saves-species-from-...s-20180212<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018\u2019But they noticed an unrealistic defect in the calculations that had traditionally been used in models to validate the KTW idea: They \u201cdescribed populations as if individuals did not exist. It\u2019s as if we described a liquid without acknowledging atoms,\u201d Goldenfeld explained by email.\u2019\u2019 Modelers find evidence that a combination of competition, predation and evolution [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85895","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}