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New Evidence Reveals Evolution Itself May Actually Be Evolving

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Computer simulations suggest that evolution itself could be evolving, depending on environmental pressures.

This would mean that not only do living things change over generational time but the processes that change them are changing too.

University of Michigan evolutionary biologist Bhaskar Kumawat and colleagues turned to randomly mutating self-replicating programs that compete in a digital environment.

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