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未能毁灭盖亚的事物使她更强大

What doesn't kill Gaia makes her stronger

Rudy Arthur, Arwen E. Nicholson, Nathan J. Mayne

AI总结:

研究利用 Tangled Nature Model 分析急性环境压力对协同进化的影响,表明灭绝风险时期可促成新的进化探索,并使幸存者形成更繁盛稳定的状态。

摘要:

在约40亿年的历史中,地球上的生命经历了无数剧变。在此前的工作中,我们讨论了对稳定性的打断平均而言如何随时间推移提升宜居性,我们将这一倾向称为 Entropic Gaia(熵式盖亚)。本文延续这一探索,采用关于协同进化的 Tangled Nature Model(纠缠自然模型),以理解生命的进化历史如何由急性环境压力时期塑造。我们发现,尽管这些压力时期带来完全灭绝的风险,但它们也创造了原本不可能出现的进化探索机会,使幸存者进入比没有压力时期的其他历史情形中人口更多、也更稳定的状态。我们还研究了扰动期间生命逃入其中的避难所的持续时间、重复次数和数量如何影响最终结果。文中结合地球历史和对外星生命的搜寻讨论了模型结果。

英文摘要:

Life on Earth has experienced numerous upheavals over its approximately 4 billion year history. In previous work we have discussed how interruptions to stability lead, on average, to increases in habitability over time, a tendency we called Entropic Gaia. Here we continue this exploration, working with the Tangled Nature Model of co-evolution, to understand how the evolutionary history of life is shaped by periods of acute environmental stress. We find that while these periods of stress pose a risk of complete extinction, they also create opportunities for evolutionary exploration which would otherwise be impossible, leading to more populous and stable states among the survivors than in alternative histories without a stress period. We also study how the duration, repetition and number of refugia into which life escapes during the perturbation affects the final outcome. The model results are discussed in relation to both Earth history and the search for alien life.

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