Special Episode: Evolution and Genetics
The Science of Everything Podcast
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Modern Synthesis - Is That a Fair View?
According to the modern synthesis, evolution is primarily driven by a natural selection of different alleles. What people have realized is that there's lots of other things that offspring inherit from their parents. And then there's the broad sense in which people mean epigenetics. There's been this sort of emerging view of the profound importance of plasticity in potentially shaping the process.
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