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Random mutations happen all the time. If there’s selection pressure that favors a given mutation, it will proliferate.
by aaaaaaaaaaab 5y ago
Random mutations happen all the time. If there’s selection pressure that favors a given mutation, it will proliferate.
- geoffmanning 5y agoJust throwing it out there; i know it's scientifically accepted that genetic mutations are simply random and the ones that just so happen to be helpful are propagated by natural selection, but i sometimes wonder that 'random' is a word akin to 'magic' that describes a process we do not quite understand. Specifically in the context of evolution, i wonder if genetic mutations aren't as random as we believe it to be, but that life is more 'intelligent' than we give it credit for, and mutations are, if not always at least sometimes, an intentional response to changes in their environment. I'd be very interested to see more research in the way that genetic mutations may be influenced by external stimuli. Not an idea i deeply hold as a truth, but fun to think about, and science doesn't expand by believing we've got it all figured out.