Evolution may have moved at a furious pace on a much warmer earth

Posted by on July 6, 2016 3:51 pm
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The rate of a certain chemical change in DNA – a key driver of spontaneous mutation and thus of evolution’s pace – increases rapidly with temperature, researchers have discovered. The scientists concluded that the rate of spontaneous mutation was at least 4,000 times higher than it is today.

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