Geneticists will tell you that. Evolution is always happeni… - Jonathan Weiner

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Geneticists will tell you that. Evolution is always happening. What they mean is that the genes of this generation are not precisely what they were the preceding generation. Nor will they be precisely the same in the next. And evolution is that change.

Jonathan Weiner

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Jonathan Weiner (born 26th November 1953 in New York) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of non-fiction books on his biology observations, in particular evolution in the Galápagos Islands, genetics, and the environment.

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“Molecular biology has no history for the young scientist,” one of the old guard declared not long ago.

Taken together, these new studies suggest that Darwin did not know the strength of his own theory. He vastly underestimated the power of natural selection. Its action is neither rare nor slow. It leads to evolution daily and hourly, all around us, and we can watch.

Why are there so many kinds of animals? Adaptive radiations like Darwin’s finches are the essence of the answer.

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