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Evolution: like any other science it is predictable.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 12 Jan 2010

Morris Simon Conway

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Evolutionary biology rejoices in the diversity of life, but this comes at a cost: other than working in the common framework of neo-Darwinian evolution, specialists in, for example, diatoms and mammals have little to say to each other. Accordingly, their research tends to track the particularitie...

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PMID: 20008391
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0154
PMCID: PMC2842699

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