Indirect selection of implicit mutation protocols.

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A hypothesis that mutability evolves to facilitate evolutionary adaptation is dismissed by many biologists. Their skepticism is based on a theoretical expectation that natural selection must minimize mutation rates. That view, in turn, is historically grounded in an intuitive presumption that "the vast majority of mutations are harmful." But such skepticism is surely misplaced. Several highly mutagenic genomic...

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