QuoteQuest“Evolution often uses this strategy. Indeed, the standard evolutionary practice of increasing the amount of genetic information as organisms increase in complexity is accomplished by doubling part of the genetic material and then allowing the slow specialization of function of the redundant set.”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Carl Sagan
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- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Chapter 7, “Lovers and Madmen” (p. 183)
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Sagan, Carl. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Carl Sagan. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
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