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Essay
Nature 433, 581-582 (10 February 2005) | doi:10.1038/433581a; Published online 9 February 2005
The onset of selection
Christian de Duve1
- Christian de Duve is at the ICP, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium, and at the Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021, USA.
Abstract
Natural selection started to drive evolution as soon as molecular replication became possible.
Divined by the genius of Alfred Russell Wallace and Charles Darwin, the basic principles of evolution by natural selection are well known. First, there is genetic continuity, based on replication.
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