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Arrival of the Fittest: The Hidden Mechanism of Evolution
Arrival of the Fittest The Hidden Mechanism of Evolution Author:Andreas Wagner A renowned biologist answers one of the�most important questions in the�life sciences — Darwinian theory explains what happens when innovations�arise among living things, but it doesn?t�tell us how those innovations came about in the�first place. As genetics pioneer Hugo de Vries put�it, �Natural selection may explain the survival of�the fittest,... more » but it cannot explain the arrival of the�fittest.?
Andreas Wagner, an award-winning evolutionary�biologist, has found that life can innovate itself�far faster than scientists previously thought possible.�His research shows how adaptations are not�just driven by chance, but rather by a set of laws�that allow nature to discover new molecules and�mechanisms in a fraction of the time that random�variation would take.
Filled with examples of the remarkable�biological creativity that surrounds us, Arrival of�the Fittest breaks new ground in explaining how�innovations in nature occur.« less
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