
Ep 163: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 8 ”The Significance of Life” Part 2
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Evolution as It Happens With Dna
i'm going to skip through a bunch of this chapter and i'll pick it up where david begins to explain a little bit more about evolution itself and evolution as it happens with dna. by warden brownie that i have mentioned before okay so we know that dna in living organisms is naturally subject to random variations mutations in the sequence of a c g n t molecules according to the theory of evolution the genes of very existence depends on such mutations having occurred because of mutations populations of any gene contain a degree or variation in individuals carrying genes with higher degrees of adaptation tend to have more offspring than other individuals. A single cosmic ray strike on a single dna molecule will in general cause a
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