Natural Selections
Natural Selections
NCPR: North Country Public Radio
When evolution goes wrong
5 minutes Posted Jun 27, 2019 at 4:00 am.
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Not all evolutionary change is good. Genetic changes can be neutral or harmful, as well as beneficial. And some change can be both, conferring benefit when a single copy of a gene is present, and causing a life-threatening disease when copies are inherited from both parents. Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager roll the dice on evolution.