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Can mutations result from a need?

Updated: 4/28/2022
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No!

This was a failed theory.

Mutations always occur on a random basis ... the result of which is that most of them are down-right bad for the organism.

(Remember, evolution is "directed" by death - NOT the survival of the fittest as is often stated.)

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