This is an essential factor in distinguishing saltational evolutional from general accelerated evolution.
The thesis underpinning A Rough Ride to the Future is what Lovelock calls "accelerated evolution".
To witness two such players has been to see the process of accelerated evolution.
Those desirable traits can be further enhanced by breeding or accelerated evolution.
In the book, Lovelock posits the idea that one consequence of accelerated evolution could be that at some point we ourselves incorporate inorganic elements in our bodies.
But the sense one gets from her now is that she seeks to lead not so much a revolution at St. Andrews as an accelerated evolution.
This phenomenon of accelerated evolution is known as "tachytely".
Hearing genes that have evolved rapidly in humans also show accelerated evolution in gorillas.
If this might have accelerated, evolution towards NVG in our patient is unclear.
The team also found that certain genes that appear to have undergone accelerated evolution in the human line, including some related to brain function, have also undergone accelerated evolution in the dog.
Prof Ian Tattersall said there were few examples to rival the accelerated evolution that led to our species.
