The Evolution of Mutations Is Not a Prediction

"It's incredibbly right on he theory. If it doesn't predict anything that hasn't already been observed, it's wrong because it didn't make a novel prediction," says the evolutionary biologist. "You have an unfalsifiable model, because you have no way of actually going in and saying, oh, it's actually not the genetic mutations that are the cause of the change." He adds: 'The fact we get all this genetic information in the first place that we could later deevolve into? That's the question we have to answer'

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