12-01-2003, 09:45 PM
Yes, I don't think any of Darwins ideas were actually new, rather the climate was ready to receive them at that time.
Random (unpredictable to us) mutations do occur as does natural selection. Darwins error was to extrapolate these small changes into enormous ones.
For a good look at the role of Random mutation and natural selection this online book is good.
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and for an extension of this theory to attempt to account for sequene similarity this is a good stat.
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Random (unpredictable to us) mutations do occur as does natural selection. Darwins error was to extrapolate these small changes into enormous ones.
For a good look at the role of Random mutation and natural selection this online book is good.
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and for an extension of this theory to attempt to account for sequene similarity this is a good stat.
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