Research rethinks the evolutionary importance of variability in a population
October 4, 2017
It's been long thought that variability within a population is key to population's growth and survival but new research questions that assumption.
Ariel Amir, Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Jie Lin, the George Carrier Postdoctoral Fellow in Applied Mathematics, found that in an unchanging environment, variability can actually lower population growth in single-cell organisms.
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https://phys.org/news/2017-10-rethinks-evolutionary-importance-variability-population.html#jCp
