Supercomputer simulation shows why beneficial mutations rarely lead to hypermutators in real organisms

In real life, mutants can arise when their DNA changes to give them an advantage over the rest of the population. A team from ...
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Evolution just broke its own logic, a new biology rule may follow

Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it ...
Phys.org

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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Groundbreaking study suggests that mutations driving evolution are informed by the genome, not random

A groundbreaking study published in this week’s issue of PNAS by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an evolutionarily significant mutation in the human APOL1 gene arises not randomly but more ...