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What Darwin Never Knew: Essential Questions and Answers on Modern Evolution

"While Charles Darwin correctly identified natural selection as the driving force of evolution, he lacked the tools to understand the molecular mechanism of heredity. Today, modern genetics answers "what Darwin never knew" by identifying DNA as the blueprint of life and "switches" as the regulators that orchestrate complex biological diversity. In 1859, when Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, he transformed our understanding of the natural world. He observed that species change over time, that all life is connected in a great "tree of life," and that survival is a matter of adaptation. However, Darwin was haunted by what he did..."

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