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
Would anyone be able to provide examples of known “built-in mechanisms of genome restructuring”? It seems to me that this would show that organisms evolve because they are programmed to do so, which is something I have been thinking is the case for quite some time now.
If anyone could point me to some examples of this I would very much appreciate it.