Tackling ongoing crises with collective evolutionary knowledge
Living organisms and their communities are evolving through time as a result of adaptation to stressors like competition or environmental change. While species also today compete for habitable space and adapt to temperature changes, stressors like antibiotic resistance and climate change can be desc...
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| author | Emma U. Hammarlund Liselotte Jauffred Nicole R. Posth Karina K. Sand |
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| description | Living organisms and their communities are evolving through time as a result of adaptation to stressors like competition or environmental change. While species also today compete for habitable space and adapt to temperature changes, stressors like antibiotic resistance and climate change can be described as grand challenges to our current human communities. However, humans are also the species that uniquely and actively can influence its own fate by leveraging knowledge of challenges ahead. What hinders us from a unified approach through research is that our understanding of grand challenges and how to meet them remains fragmented and curated within distinct disciplines. Developing a collective framework, requires breaking down disciplinary barriers, which comes at a cost to the research productivity of individual researchers. Here, we discuss how collective evolutionary insights are essential to identify, characterize, and tackle three emergent grand challenges and what lies beyond. We also assess solutions to ease the productivity burden to the individual researcher and propose a path forward to transform current siloed knowledge into impactful tools for tackling the oncoming global challenges. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-da0f5cb1f34646bc8c3839afbb8b05552024-12-12T05:25:00ZengElsevierEvolving Earth2950-11722024-01-012100043Tackling ongoing crises with collective evolutionary knowledgeEmma U. Hammarlund0Liselotte Jauffred1Nicole R. Posth2Karina K. Sand3Evolutionary Geobiology Consortium, Sweden; Tissue Development and Evolution (TiDE) Group, Department of Experimental Medical Sciences, Lund University, Sölvegatan 19, 223 83, Lund, Sweden; Corresponding author. Evolutionary Geobiology Consortium, Lund University, Sweden.Evolutionary Geobiology Consortium, Sweden; Jauffred Lab, The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100, Copenhagen Ø, DenmarkEvolutionary Geobiology Consortium, Sweden; Geomicrobiology Lab, Sedimentary Systems, Department of Geosciences & Natural Resource Management (IGN), University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350, Copenhagen K, DenmarkEvolutionary Geobiology Consortium, Sweden; Molecular Geobiology Group, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 7, 1350, Copenhagen K, DenmarkLiving organisms and their communities are evolving through time as a result of adaptation to stressors like competition or environmental change. While species also today compete for habitable space and adapt to temperature changes, stressors like antibiotic resistance and climate change can be described as grand challenges to our current human communities. However, humans are also the species that uniquely and actively can influence its own fate by leveraging knowledge of challenges ahead. What hinders us from a unified approach through research is that our understanding of grand challenges and how to meet them remains fragmented and curated within distinct disciplines. Developing a collective framework, requires breaking down disciplinary barriers, which comes at a cost to the research productivity of individual researchers. Here, we discuss how collective evolutionary insights are essential to identify, characterize, and tackle three emergent grand challenges and what lies beyond. We also assess solutions to ease the productivity burden to the individual researcher and propose a path forward to transform current siloed knowledge into impactful tools for tackling the oncoming global challenges.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S295011722400013X |
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