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Physical Theory of Molecular Evolution

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Everything that has been expounded in the preceding chapters is based on Darwin’s natural selection of eukaryotic phenotypes. The existence of natural selection is documented by an enormous number of facts established in biology, but not substantiated by more general and detailed propositions of physics. Moreover, one may encounter statements to the effect that natural selection is not amenable to physical interpretation and that Darwin’s theory contradicts physics.

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Volkenstein, M.V. (1994). Physical Theory of Molecular Evolution. In: Physical Approaches to Biological Evolution. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78788-1_8

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