Ratchet-like genetic mutations make evolution irreversible

Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 04:42 in Biology & Nature

A University of Oregon research team has found that evolution can never go backwards, because the paths to the genes once present in our ancestors are forever blocked. The findings - the result of the first rigourous study of reverse evolution at the molecular level - appear in the 24 September issue of Nature...

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