Futurity.org - Evolution is actually pretty predictable - 1 views
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Rory Newcomb on 28 Oct 12PRINCETON (US) - "Is evolution predictable? To a surprising extent the answer is 'yes'," says Princeton professor Peter Andolfatto. New research by Andolfatto and colleagues published in the journal suggests that knowledge of a species' genes-and how certain external conditions affect the proteins encoded by those genes-could be used to determine a predictable evolutionary pattern driven by outside factors.