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Fascinating...and if the person really knows what he is explaining (I'm in no position to tell) it certainly answers questions I had about how random mutations can be so effective in improving survival rather than leading to death. Just fascinating. Thank you HN

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Most random mutations are not beneficial, but if you consider large populations and long enough time frame, then it works. Evolution is brute forcing progress with massive parallelism over long periods of time

I would recommend reading the selfish gene and other works by Dawkins if you are interested in theories on the functional basis of mutations in the universe.

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