Foresight in Genome Evolution
By Lynn Lynn Caporale Caporale
Selection favors a certain amount of predictable variation in genomes, a capacity that protects populations
This Article From Issue
May-June 2003
Volume 91, Number 3
Page 234
DOI: 10.1511/2003.44.234
When Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace remarked on the great variation among the individual members of so many species around the world, from pigeons to beetles, they could only imagine what the source of such variation might be. They certainly never heard of the double-helical structure of DNA or the sequence of a genome.
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