Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, And The Fut... May 2026

Predicting how pests adapt to pesticides is crucial for our food supply.

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

On the other side, Conway Morris argues that natural selection is so powerful that it inevitably finds the same "solutions" to environmental problems. If an environment needs a fast swimmer, it will eventually produce something like a shark, a dolphin, or an ichthyosaur—independently. Testing the "Improbable" in the Real World Predicting how pests adapt to pesticides is crucial

Losos’s own pioneering work shows that nearly identical lizard species have evolved independently on different islands to fill specific niches (like tree trunks or grassy twigs), a stunning example of predictable convergence. a stunning example of predictable convergence.