Experimental evolution is the use of laboratory or controlled field manipulations to investigate evolutionary processes. It usually makes use of organisms with rapid generation times and small ...

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It includes topics such as the evolution of genome structure, the genetic basis of speciation and adaptation, and genetic change in response to selection within populations.

Maybe, with a little luck, he would make another discovery that would change the map of human evolution. A version of this story appears in the February 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine.

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