An Evolutionary Experiment

L. N. Trut

The name of academician D. K. Belyaev is connected, first and foremost, with the research into the main biological process, evolution. The scientist opened a completely new, previously unknown to geneticists, chapter of the theory of morphogenetic processes related to the interaction between the main factors of evolution — variation and selection — and used the method quite unusual for such studies, experiment.

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