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Vaccines Are Pushing Pathogens to Evolve
- chiefalchemist 8y agoThe headline is a classic misstatement / misunderstanding of the evolutionary process. Genes mutate. Naturally. All the time. Sometimes those become and advantage. Sometimes not. Vaccines aren't "pushing" anything. They simply change the definition of advantageous. In other words, evolution is more a process of elimination than it is an evolution (in the traditional seek to make progress sort of way.)