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If it had inherited a mutated gene that impaired its ability to run, then, relative to its companions, a deer would be defective and so subject to selective devourment by predators. This is Tennyson’s “Nature, red in tooth and claw,” and Darwin’s “natural selection.”.
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Forsdyke, D.R. (2011). Species Survival and Arrival. In: Evolutionary Bioinformatics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7771-7_8
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