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Making of the Fittest

October 20, 2006

Making of the Fittest
Geneticist Sean Carroll, author of The Making of the Fittest, elucidates how DNA can provide a record of evolution by so-called "fossilized genes." In a lecture at the American Museum of Natural History, he explains how DNA can reveal expressed traits that have been lost, gained, and modified throughout time.
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