The Scientist Who Scrambled Darwin’s Tree of Life
After reading thread after thread by Creationist quacks about Evolution- I wanted to share this article that I found fascinating as it explores some of the complicated science and messiness of what we now know about evolution- and how we got here.
In particular what I found fascinating was horizontal gene transfer- how genes can transfer between species
After reading thread after thread by Creationist quacks about Evolution- I wanted to share this article that I found fascinating as it explores some of the complicated science and messiness of what we now know about evolution- and how we got here.
In particular what I found fascinating was horizontal gene transfer- how genes can transfer between species
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