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Nick Lane on Origins of Life, Consciousness, Alien Life, Krebs Cycle, and Evolution
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Is the Increase in Diversity a Universal Feature of Population Genetics?
i suppose the reason is simply mutations, which leads to diversity. So mutations are almost impossibleand we now all of allo evolution is based on mutations and they have an enormous power. And even if you pick up geans that are worse than the ones you've got on average, you'll benefit from it because you're generating variation that selection can act on. But moving genes around by lateral gene transfer amplifies those differences. The whole thing is based on the whole thing being based on mutation. Can account for the transition from bacterial sex to a whole new kind of genetic system? i'm shocked at how much power it has. I find this quite difficult to get used to, because i
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