Ben contributes to Report: Evolutionary science for a changing world
Ben was a contributing author to the recently published discussion paper ‘Evolutionary science for a changing world’. This report was prepared by a working group of academics through the Australian Academy of Science’s National Committee for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation (NCEEC) and National Committee for History and Philosophy of Science. This report shows how evolutionary science remains relevant today. Its power lies in the simplicity of the basic evolutionary principle: the selection of variants over successive trials creates change in populations of organisms, technologies, languages and economies. Four case studies show that the benefits of evolutionary science extend well beyond the traditional domain of biological systems and far beyond the academic sciences. They show that evolving systems are best understood by bringing together classic evolutionary theory and experimental evolution with mathematics, philosophy and data science. You can read the report here.
