Towards evolutionary predictions: Current promises and challenges.

ABSTRACT: Evolution has traditionally been a historical and descriptive science, and predicting future evolutionary processes has long been considered impossible. However, evolutionary predictions are increasingly being developed and used in medicine, agriculture, biotechnology and conservation biology. Evolutionary predictions may be used for different purposes, such as to prepare for the future, to try and change the course of evolution or to determine how well we understand evolutionary processes. Similarly, the exact aspect of the evolved population that we want to predict may also differ. For example, we could try to predict which genotype will dominate, the fitness of the population or the extinction probability of a population. In addition, there are many uses of evolutionary predictions that

SUBMITTER: Wortel MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9850016 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature