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The genetic code is redundant, thus even if the proteins remain the same, there is random change. (But OK 'evolution' probably doesn't apply to that.)

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by DoDo on Fri Feb 5th, 2010 at 10:27:31 AM EST
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But then, at any time within a population, those redundant bases are already diverse... It's not as if the genetic code of a species was well determined down to the single base level.

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by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Fri Feb 5th, 2010 at 02:11:58 PM EST
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