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Will mutations become less freqent?

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07-22-2006 7:37 AM 		Reply to: Message 11 by Elliot
07-22-2006 4:40 AM

Overall I am saying that in an environment which is not rapidly changing, species would evolve more accurate means of copying DNA
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Possibly. However, this makes the assumption that the current fidelity system can be improved without first getting worse or incurring some other penalty on the individuals that inherits it. I don't know if this is the case.
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I suppose another condition that might be necessary is that the species is highly specialized and most/any mutations would be negative.
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