
Special Episode: Evolution and Genetics
The Science of Everything Podcast
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What Is Agency in Evolution?
The environment is something that the organism along with its genes and alleles and genome has actively constructed. And that's what's interacting with the organism and determining its relative success compared to others. So if we can sort of generalize that idea, it is that almost all organisms are affecting their local environments. That in turn affects their physiology and likely has affected their evolutionary trajectory.
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