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Since Darwin, research in evolutionary biology tries to understand
biodiversity - the great number of species in nature, each with
features so well adapted to its environment. In our current
understanding of evolution, the genes and the mutations responsible for
phenotypic differences have no distinctive features: mutations occur
randomly and a few of them happen to spread in populations through
selection and chance. However, phenotypic evolution may not involve
random genes and random mutations. There might be rules to be
discovered about the mutations underlying evolution.
We are using a combination of various approaches to identify the
mutations responsible for evolutionary changes and to reconstruct past
evolutionary events. We hope that our work will provide new and
rigorous data to better understand our evolution, past and future.
Updated April 2012
Photo V. Orgogozo - developping genitalia
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