Scientists Think We May Have the Evolutionary Timeline All Wrong

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.
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A clock running fast could explain Darwin’s fossil record gaps

Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant ...
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Adaptive tracking theory of molecular evolution challenges mutation neutrality

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ordinary ...
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The theory of evolution : principles, concepts, and assumptions edited by Samuel M. Scheiner and David P. Mindell

The theory of evolution / David P. Mindell and Samuel M. Scheiner -- Part 1: Overarching Issues. Historicizing the synthesis: critical insights and pivotal moments in the long history of evolutionary ...