In Darwinian evolution, feedback from natural selection leads to biased mutations.

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Natural selection provides feedback through which information about the environment and its recurring challenges is captured, inherited, and accumulated within genomes in the form of variations that contribute to survival. The variation upon which natural selection acts is generally described as "random." Yet evidence has been mounting for decades, from such phenomena as mutation hotspots, horizontal gene...

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