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Directionality of Evolution

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We read in Webster’s Dictionary: “Evolution, from Latin evolutio, an unrolling or opening, from evolutus,pp. of evolvere, to unroll; the development of a species, organism or organ from its original or rudimentary state to its present or completed state; phylogeny or ontogeny. To evolve is to develop gradually; to reach a highly developed state by a process of growth and change.”

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Volkenstein, M.V. (1994). Directionality of Evolution. In: Physical Approaches to Biological Evolution. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78788-1_3

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