Mutation bias in evolution: climbing Mount Probable (Ep 97)
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The Effect of Selection on Evolution
In the RNA example, there's a relatively simple and straightforward genotype to phenotype map. But that we can't do it for like entire animal body plans because that GDP map is just way too complicated. And so to arrive at the idea that there might be biases in these really complicated GDP maps, it's a question of extrapolating from these simpler examples. So going back to selection, you can show in the laboratory and in the field that selection is very powerful with experiments. It's a different set of techniques to look retrospectively at evolution.
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