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"How can organisms be so exquisitely complex, if evolution is completely random"

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11-15-2008 3:03 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by iano
11-13-2008 4:23 PM

I don't know what they're smoking over at Princeton, but it must be pretty potent if they've forgotten that selection is not random.
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It may be as Taz surmised that they're just engaging in a bit of hyperbole. Obviously any chemistry that acted to correct unfavorable protein imbalances would be strongly selected for.
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