In 2008 evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson in her article "The Monster Is Back, and It’s Hopeful" listed some examples which may support the hopeful monster hypothesis and an article published in the nature journal in 2010 titled "Evolution: Revenge of the Hopeful Monster" reported that studies in stickleback populations in a British Columbia lake and bacteria populations in a Michigan lab have shown that large individual genetic changes can have vast effects on organisms "without dooming it to the evolutionary rubbish heap".
In 2008 evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson in her article "The Monster Is Back, and It’s Hopeful" listed some examples which may support the hopeful monster hypothesis and an article published in the journal Nature in 2010 titled "Evolution: Revenge of the Hopeful Monster" reported that studies in stickleback populations in a British Columbia lake and bacteria populations in a Michigan lab have shown that large individual genetic changes can have vast effects on organisms "without dooming it to the evolutionary rubbish heap".