Contingency and determinism in evolution: Replaying life’s tape

Science

Volumn 362, Issue 6415, 2018, Pages

  Blount, Zachary D ^a,b   Lenski, Richard E ^a   Losos, Jonathan B ^c  

^a Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^b KENYON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGIST; BIOLOGY; EMPIRICISM; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; REVIEW; TENSION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; LABORATORY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 85056426183     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aam5979     Document Type: Review

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