Intro: Charles Darwin was convinced that the evolution of complexity must proceed by tiny steps. Only tiny steps could be accumulated by natural selection. The process had to go slowly for it to work. Billions of years were needed. But Darwin was aware that this theory had a problem: flowers.
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Evolutionary genomics with Richard Buggs: Why flowering plants are a mystery
Talk intro: Charles Darwin was convinced that the evolution of complexity must proceed by tiny steps. Only tiny steps could be accumulated by natural selection. The process had to go slowly for it to work. Billions of years were needed. But Darwin was aware that this theory had a problem: flowers.
Dawkins’s thesis that the bacterial flagellum evolved from the injectisome is no longer tenable, prof says
Darwinism’s key strength is that it is much simpler and more straightforward than life forms are.