Quanta Magazine September 02, 2026 • 14:23

Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble - Quanta Magazine

Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble - Quanta Magazine

By doubling their entire genome, organisms can evolve extremely rapidly — or they can lose it all. New studies reveal how to survive the high-risk, high-reward evolutionary event.

We like to think of it as a baseball hitter that strikes out a lot, but when they do hit, its a home run, said Douglas Soltis, a plant evolutionary geneticist at the Florida Museum of Natural History… [+7486 chars]

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