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Scientists find mass extinctions can accelerate evolution
Posted in Featured, Software on 14th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller
The research supports the idea that mass extinctions actually speed up evolution by unleashing new creativity in adaptations.
Evolution is unpredictable and irreversible, biologists show
Posted in Science on 10th Jun, 2015
by Alex Muller
The study focuses exclusively on the type of evolution known as purifying selection, which favors mutations that have no or only a small effect in a fixed environment.