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88. Beautiful Science

Undeceptions with John Dickson

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The Evolution of Biomorphs

Biomorphs are controlled by genes just like the Arthur Morrison, just like the Spiderwebs. They're coming up by random mutation, but the direction of the evolution is being guided by the human eye. And so what we've shown is that the shapes that are more likely to appear are also much more likely to be selected for. So it's a nice example of how natural selection might work.

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