In an BBC article describing a Royal Society paper on the rate of mutation in warm vs. cooler climates, the BBC made this statement:<\/p>\n
DNA can mutate and change imperceptibly every time a cell divides and makes a copy of itself.<\/p>\n
But when one of these mutations causes a change that is advantageous for the animal – for example, rendering it resistant to a particular disease – it is often “selected for”, or passed down to the next few generations of that same species.<\/p>\n
Such changes, which create differences within a population but do not give rise to new species, are known as “microevolution”. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I suppose the BBC is into the Hopeful Monster theory or something.
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