Attempts to detect adaptive evolution at the molecular level have met with little success. Studies of a digestive enzyme in primates, involving the reconstruction of DNA sequences that have long been extinct, show a way forward.
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Sharp, P. In search of molecular darwinism. Nature 385, 111–112 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/385111a0
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