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Molecular Techniques in Taxonomy pp 15–32Cite as

Variation at the DNA Level: Something for Everyone

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Pretentiousness notwithstanding, if there is such a thing as a central paradox in biology it is that all organisms resemble one another but at the same time are different. Darwin, of course, recognized the universality of this paradox, and it led him to a theory of descent with modification, the foundation of our modern theory of evolution.

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Kreitman, M. (1991). Variation at the DNA Level: Something for Everyone. In: Hewitt, G.M., Johnston, A.W.B., Young, J.P.W. (eds) Molecular Techniques in Taxonomy. NATO ASI Series, vol 57. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83962-7_3

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