Natural Selection Works with Existing Material

It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties come from previously unseen association of old material. To create is to recombine.

Notes:

Novelty arises from unseen association of old material.

Folksonomies: evolution natural selection

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Concepts:
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On the Origin of Species (0.449853): dbpedia | freebase | yago

 Evolution and Tinkering
Periodicals>Journal Article:  Jacob, François (1977), Evolution and Tinkering, Science, (1977), 196, 1163, Retrieved on 2012-06-06