Is the Mutation Rate Adjustable?

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Paul hess says, in your interview with shawnb carroll, the idea was raised that the mutation rate of organisms is, in theory, adjustable. If you could adjust the human ation rate? Would you increase it greatly in response to the much more rapid changes in climate and technology we are facing? Or reduce it greatly to provide a stable base for adaptation using technology? Our race is going through non biological evolution a. Well, particularly my individual f would not mess with the human mutation rate. It's probably about right now. You are pointing out, correctly, that we are living in a time when our conditions are changing more rapidly than usual.

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