The evolutionary mystery of flying may finally be cracked by genetics – New Scientist

Finding out how flight evolved or animals moved onto land is all about a collision of palaeontology and genetics, argue two new books

By Graham Lawton

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IN 1871, a now-obscure biologist called St George Jackson Mivart published On the Genesis of Species. As its title suggests, the book was a riposte to Darwins theory of natural selection, published in 1859. Mivart had been an avid Darwinian, but the more he thought about it, the stronger his doubts

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