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Mark Vellend, "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics" (Princeton UP, 2025)

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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When More Variation Can Be Harmful

Gregory asks why added variation sometimes reduces performance; Mark explains costs of variation and balance between exploration and stability.

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