The Evolution of Natural Selection

Molecular biologists found that natural selection was not the all-powerful force many had assumed it to be. The genes in our cells were mutating at a very high rate, but some genetic changes were being preserved for no reason apart from pure chance. New scientists claim this combo fails to account for a raft of non-genetic factors such as epigenetic inheritance and developmental plasticity.

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