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Evolution in the Post-Genome Era
- Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 52, Number 2, Spring 2009
- pp. 332-337
- 10.1353/pbm.0.0090
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The advent of nucleotide sequence data has created a new era in evolutionary biology. With theoretical underpinnings derived from the work of the late Motoo Kimura, evolutionary concepts have played a key role in the development of the field of bioinformatics. However, the maturation of modern evolutionary biology has been hindered by a conception of natural selection as an all-powerful force shaping every aspect of phenotypic evolution. In new books, Joram Piatigorsky and Michael Lynch provide a corrective to some outdated views and thus provide a glimpse of what the evolutionary biology of the 21st century may look like.