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I believe none of the stated *reasons* for revisiting "'sDangerousIdea" in this most-read Guardian article of 2022 will have any effect on how "" explains .

For example:

1️⃣ "The study of the way *organisms alter their environment* in order to reduce the normal pressure of natural selection – think of beavers building dams" only shows that favors beavers *genetically programmed* to build better dams.

2️⃣ "The *Senegal bichir* adapting to land in a single generation” and *dung beetles* growing larger wings in cold weather only show the co-producing relationship between *nature* and *nurture* and the known fact that the ***same*** set of genes (*genotype*) will produce slightly different *phenotypes* in different environments. It surely does not explain *speciation*.

and lastly

3️⃣ I really don't see the difference between passing to the next generation randomly as opposed to artificially induced *mutations*. Natural selection will *"weed out"* one **and** the other the same way.

theguardian.com/science/2022/j

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