Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP1097048

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP1097048

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Evolvability and the Evolution of Complexity. Anyone engaging in a moment's reflection on the striking richness, diversity, and complexity of the biological world is faced with the question: how did it get here? Though natural selection is central to answering this question, important new work has identified various conditions that make some lineages of organisms "evolvable": capable of changing in ways that radically expand the range of further possible changes. This project will clarify and integrate these various conditions using empirical examples and simple models. The resulting work from this project will provide a clearer general understanding of what biological complexity is, and how science has compelling candidates for understanding how it evolves.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 31-03-2010

End Date: 22-09-2013

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $266,700.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

History and Philosophy Of Specific Fields | History And Philosophy Of Science And Medicine Not Elsewhere | Philosophy Not Elsewhere Classified |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Biological sciences | Other

Other Keywords

Biological sciences | History And Philosophy Of Science And Medicine Not Elsewhere | History and Philosophy Of Specific Fields | Other | Philosophy Not Elsewhere Classified

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