“This is a perfect book for those (of us) that are keenly interested in the genetics of evolution but lack your University level, fruit fly education.
Carroll describes how genes fall into a state of "disrepair" from lack of use through an accumulation of clockwork mutations that ultimately render that gene's product useless.
There's no need to worry, you learn, because in order for "fossil genes" to not become "purged" from a population, their phenological traits; or the loss of...”

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