Predictable Evolution Trumps Randomness of Mutations

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 12:00 in Biology & Nature

Although mutations, the driver of evolution, occur at random, a study of the bacterium Escherichia coli reveals that nature often finds the same solution to the same problem again and again. [More]

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