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How Supergenes Fuel Evolution Despite Harmful Mutations

The Quanta Podcast

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The Superpower of Recombination

Recombination hedges nature's bets about the value of different permutations of genes. It boosts genetic diversity and helps weed out harmful mutations. Sex chromosomes are essentially supergene's run amok. But evolutionary biologist Emma Burden says pink towels often aren't a problem.

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