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Evolution is not as random as previously thought, finds new study (phys.org)

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A new study has found that evolution is not as unpredictable as previously thought, which could allow scientists to explore which genes could be useful to tackle real-world issues such as antibiotic resistance, disease, and climate change.

The study, which is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), challenges the long-standing belief about the unpredictability of evolution and has found that the evolutionary trajectory of a genome may be influenced by its evolutionary history, rather than determined by numerous factors and historical accidents.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Not a biologist either (and don't mind me butting in) but a lot of social darwinists seem to violently hate sexual selection