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117 | Sean B. Carroll on Randomness and the Course of Evolution
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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As early as darwin, we thought that the changes from generation to generation had a random component. But then when you look at the genetic code, which wasn't vitnor was not discovered until the early sixties, and you realize there's a universal genetic code in every organism. And now you can map how a change in one in a, one base in d and a, changes this protein, which changes this trait ahn were now you're looking at the fundamental root of evolution. So i think we have that sort of seamless continuity throughout all thoseon all those scales and in life.
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