Natural Selection Can Actually Slow Evolution, Scientists Say
When you hear the term natural selection, you likely think of change, but new research suggests the mechanism can also preserve similarities between populations.
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When you hear the term natural selection, you likely think of change, but new research suggests the mechanism can also preserve similarities between populations.
Natural selection is usually understood in the context of change, but new findings suggest that natural selection also has the power to keep things the same.
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Researchers publish a new report in the journal <i>New Phytologist</i> that expands science’s understanding of natural selection in the face of another evolutionary mechanism called genetic constraint.
The finding ‘flips the script,’ showing selection could lead to similarities as well as differences