Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, And The Fut... -

Understanding how bacteria predictably evolve resistance can help us fight "superbugs".

Beyond the ivory tower, Losos’s insights have vital real-world applications: Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Fut...

Gould famously argued that evolution is highly contingent on random events. He believed that if you replayed the "tape of life," a different set of winners and losers would emerge every time. To Gould, humans are a magnificent evolutionary fluke. Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Fut...

The book centers on a legendary scientific disagreement between two titans of biology: Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Fut...

The platypus, for instance, remains a one-off. He argues that while nature often repeats itself, there is no guarantee it would ever "repeat" us. Why It Matters Today