These models make it clear that formation of clusters of cooperating molecules and formation of spatial patterns is generally very important for evolution and survival of catalytic replicators.
Evolution in general is much more than the evolution of cells, or the evolution of functions (even if these two aspects are very important to understand evolution).
Then further found that new genes were very important for the evolution of reproduction and development, as well as several other interesting findings.
Because heterochrony is so important in providing raw material on which natural selection can operate, it plays a very important role in evolution (McKinney and McNamara 1991; McNamara 1995a, b, 1997; Tills et al. 2011).
However, this is not proof of ancestral common origin because we know that HGT is a very important process in evolution and that furthermore, viruses are active vectors of HGT between cells (see above).
New research indicates that prediction is very important for our evolution and survival.
Natural hybridization is common in plants and plays a very important role in evolution as a source of novel gene combinations and a mechanism of speciation [3] [10].
Indeed such a mechanism of protein complex subunit duplication has been very important in the evolution of new complexes and protein functions [ 17].
Only four of the 93 neighbourhoods investigated show no evidence of transfer within the E. coli - Shigella lineage, suggesting that LGT has been very important in the evolution of these regions.
Overall, this is a very important difference between natural evolution and (Experimenter-) Directed Evolution.
