More From the University of Chicago’s James Shapiro’s 2010 Works of the Mind lecture, “A 21st Century View of Evolution,”
Four kinds of rapid, multi-character changes Darwin could not have imagined
• Horizontal DNA transfer in evolution;
• Multiple cell types and cell fusions (symbiogenesis) in evolution;
• Genome doublings at key steps of eukaryotic evolution;
• Built-in mechanisms of genome restructuring = natural genetic engineering