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Genetic Mutation: The Development of the Concept and its Evolutionary Implications

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Mexican Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science

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Nowadays, mutation means a change in the kind, number, or nucleotide sequence of the genetic material (Herskowitz, 1962), a heritable change in a chromosome (Watson, 1977), or a change in the genotype not due to a recombination of genes (Dobzhansky, 1970). Mutation is a term used in a general manner to explain the emergence of a character not inherited from ancestors, but heritable by the offspring.

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Barahona Echeverria, A. (1995). Genetic Mutation: The Development of the Concept and its Evolutionary Implications. In: Ramirez, S., Cohen, R.S. (eds) Mexican Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 172. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0109-4_7

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