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Evolution 'Landscapes' Predict What's Next for COVID Virus

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The Evolution of Bacterial Bacteria

Evolution of the jean could potentially follow 120 paths to accumulate all five mutations. But when scientists created and tested the intermediary variants in the lab, they found that 102 of the paths weren't possible under natural selection because they produced defective or incomplete proteins. Researchers wrote that this implies that the pro n tape of life may be largely reproducible and even predictable.

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