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Sudden origins: a general mechanism of evolution based on stress protein concentration and rapid environmental change.
Anatomical record. Part B, New anatomist - 1 Jan 2006
Maresca Bruno, Schwartz Jeffrey H
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A major theme in Darwinian evolutionary theory is that novelty arises through a process in which organisms and their features are gradually transformed. Morgan provided Darwinism and the evolutionary synthesis with the idea that minor mutations produce the minuscule morphological variations on which natural selection then acts, and that, although mutation is random, once a process of gradual genetic modification...
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