Mutation and evolution

Month: July 2015

  • The buffet and the sushi conveyor

    The return of mutationism to mainstream evolutionary biology is evident in the way mainstream articles now describe the role of mutation in evolution, in our reliance on mathematical models that evoke a mutationist view, and in evo-devo research programs that focus on identifying causative major-effect mutations. This shift has happened in a kind of sub-conscious…