Evolution and Tinkering
- Kind
- Journal Article
- Date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Science
- Volume / pages
- (1977), 196, 1163
- Retrieved
- Jun 6, 2012
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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.