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Associate Professor at University of Bristol
In 1989, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould argued that if you could rewind evolution and play it again, the results would be utterly different—humanity was a cosmic accident. A study published in Nature on November 12, 2025 offers the most comprehensive counterargument yet: when 11 different animal lineages independently crawled out of the water across 487 million years, they repeatedly evolved the same genetic solutions.
Updated Feb 10
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