
Introducing the Stretch & Squish Theory of Evolution
December 14, 2004
Evolution is too slow if theorists rely on single point mutations, say two biologists from U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, who published their ideas in PNAS1 (see summary on EurekAlert). Instead, evolution proceeds by rapidly distorting, stretching and squishing what is already there, they claim. They claim that even Darwin knew that […]