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Curiously, it was the same skills that led him to discover extinction that made evolution appear to him preposterous, an affair as unlikely as alchemy.
"It was as if he made evolution occur in real time," said Dr. Gerald R. Fink, a professor of genetics at M.I.T. and former director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass.
Although it sharpened rather than softened resistance to evolutionary ideas among scientists and clergy, Vestiges reached a huge audience and, one might argue, made evolution a mainstream concept.
Being able to trace biological history on a map made evolution clear to Wallace, and there's no reason the same can't happen for students today.
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The statement makes evolution seem all too logical and orderly.
WHY -- "Everyone should read this book -- it not only makes evolution easy to understand, it is a great story.
The film's themes of puberty and (at least implicit) child sexuality may make Evolution a stumbling block for some viewers.
The shifting fates of genes from one generation to the next are not what make evolution so astonishing, or so difficult for some people to accept.
Sure, Mr. Duchovny, getting serious about his film career at age 40, has been busy making "Evolution," a science fiction movie with Julianne Moore.
The allelic variations that make evolution possible are generated by the process of mutation, but new mutations change gene frequencies very slowly, because mutation rates are low.
He adds: "This quantifiable evidence, derived from fossils, helps make evolution more apparent to a general audience, and helps demonstrate exactly how scientists understand what they do know about evolution".
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