Can Organisms Speed Their Own Evolution?
- 8 June 2001
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 292 (5523) , 1824-1827
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.292.5523.1824
Abstract
Intriguing hints from cell and molecular biologists suggest that in times of stress, organisms may be able to crank up their mutation rates, helping accelerate their own evolution. But evolutionary biologists caution that the evolutionary origins and effects of the newly discovered processes remain uncertain.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: