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Evolution on a Petri Dish

The Evolved β-Galactosidase System as a Model for Studying Acquisitive Evolution in the Laboratory

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Several years ago I began a project whose major goal was to understand the variety of ways by which an organism can evolve new physiologic functions. How does an organism which is already well adapted to its environment evolve a new function to cope with an altered environment? The synthetic theory of evolution does not really address the problem of evolution of novel functions; nor does population genetics deal with the appearance of new functions. Although there is general agreement about how genes, having once acquired a particular function, are successively modified to improve the efficiency of that function, little is known about the detailed process by which functions evolve.

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