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In search of molecular darwinism

Attempts to detect adaptive evolution at the molecular level have met with little success. Studies of a digestive enzyme in primates, involving the reconstruction of DNA sequences that have long been extinct, show a way forward.

P. Sharp | Paul M. Sharp

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