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Why mutation is not as random as we thought

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The Selection of Important Gens in the Genum

For a gean to mutate less, the lower mutation rate needs to give the offspring a big enough advantage that it's selected for. For a single gen, mutations are so rare that this just doesn't happen. Detlef and his team now had a plausible mechanism but they were still not confident enough in their finding to publish so.

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