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How do cells evolve new parts?

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Generally speaking, through reproductive variation and differential reproductive success (natural selection). In some cases, such evolutionary pathways may be simple, eg. a previously existing structure evolves in such a way that it gains a novel function. In others more complex, eg. through evolutionary 'scaffolding', whereby the mutual cooptation of parts produces a new functionality on which the cell then comes to depend as the original parts, the 'scaffolds', are lost through mutation.

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