Environs Prompt Helpful Mutations as Plants Grow; Changes Passed On

Friday, July 1, 2011 - 10:30 in Biology & Nature

A Case Western Reserve University researcher has found that the environment not only weeds out harmful and useless mutations through natural selection, but actually influences helpful mutations, which are passed to the next generation. He challenges peers to repeat the controversial findings.

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