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A Biosphere in Flux

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From single nucleotide polymorphisms, phospholipids, cell membranes, and entire genotypes to hybrid species and variants, the biology commandeering our current rapidity of change impacts the probability that the powers of natural selection are wildly fluctuating. Data pertaining to re-evolution has far broader implications for human societal change as it confronts the Anthropocene of its own making.

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