The study showed that populations don’t lose their “evolvability,” even if conditions remain the same for many generations.
Computer simulations suggest that evolution itself could be evolving, depending on environmental pressures. This would mean that not only do living things change over generational time but the ...
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More information: Michael Barnett et al, Experimental evolution of evolvability, Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.adr2756 Perspective: Edo Kussell, Enabling evolvability to evolve, Science (2025).