These changes have emerged through spontaneous mutations and natural selection, and Dr. Lenski and his colleagues have been able to watch them unfold.
Mutations and natural selection, however, would presumably have worked upon each part of such a system individually.
Just as the eye — an organ of breathtaking complexity and specialization — evolved incrementally through the combined effects of random mutations and natural selection over millions of years, so, too, Pinker and Bloom insisted, did language.
Fundamentally equivalent to previously formulated population genetics models, it mainly studies the balance between the incessant generation of deleterious mutations and natural selection favoring the fittest types.
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There is another fundamental difference between life and technology: the former evolves spontaneously, the latter only through human design.Whereas a pistol will never generate a machinegun a bacterium designed to, say, destroy water pollutants could evolve through spontaneous genetic mutations and natural selection into a different bug that kills bees, or maize, or men.
In nature, mutation and natural selection the variation, selection, and propagation of genes that contribute to reproductive success is an autonomous process.
Instead, they should look to nature, in which random mutation and natural selection produce the features that fit an organism to its environment.
According to Darwinism, evolution largely reflects the combined action of random mutation and natural selection.
These findings show how complex functions can originate by random mutation and natural selection.
Rather, it states: "We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life.
