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How the unicorn got its horn

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An experiment studying bacterial populations over thousands of generations shows that a novel trait can evolve through rearrangement and amplification of a few pre-existing genes. See Article p.513

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Figure 1: The evolution of a new trait.

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  1. Heather Hendrickson and Paul B. Rainey are at the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Massey University, Auckland, 0745, New Zealand.,

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  2. Paul B. Rainey is also at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany.,

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