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Review of 2023 book: How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology Philip Ball. ISBN9781529095999

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@Meowoem
Agree that genome reduction is the slower process, but it’s part of genome evolution, not only the more “energetically expensive” parts.

“Quantitatively, the evolution of genomes appears to be dominated by reduction and simplification, punctuated by episodes of complexification.”