Microbial genomics challenge Darwin
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This collection of 14 articles in Frontiers in Cellular and Infectious Microbiology aims to re-assess Darwinian and neo-darwinian concepts of biological evolution in the light of the discoveries in comparative genomics of microbes in the twenty-first century. At the time of the publication of the Origins of species in 1859 (Darwin, 1859), Darwin’s vision of evolution revolutionized the scientific worldview and even the human perception of the world beyond science. However, a century later, with the consolidation of the Modern Synthesis (neo-darwinism), evolutionary biology has adopted a rather rigid, somewhat dogmatic framework. Evolutionary biologists have accepted as indisputable truths that the mutations were entirely random. They believe that:
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