Varying environments can speed up evolution

By Nadav Kashtan, Elad Noor, Uri Alon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007

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Life is Physics: Evolution as a Collective Phenomenon Far From Equilibrium (2010, background): “In the first, the network was evolved in an environment of goals that changed in a modular fashion[112]; moreover, a follow-up study[113] showed clearly that environmental fluctuations do indeed accelerate the rate of evolution.”
The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities (2018, unknown): “Yet both philosophical arguments [23, 26, 27, 82, 109] and high-profile publications [2, 16, 18 – 21, 52, 59, 60, 83, 85, 86, 92, 141, 146, 148] suggest that digital evolution can be a useful tool to aid and complement the study of biological evolution.”
Modular Brain Networks (2015, background): “Modularity has also been demonstrated to promote adaptation and increase flexibility in response to a changing environment (Kashtan & Alon 2005, Kashtan et al. 2007).”
Emergent Tangled Graph Representations for Atari Game Playing Agents (2017, background): “In particular, switching between multiple diversity measures (in combination with fitness-based selection) has been shown to impact the development of modularity [7, 17].”