The world of Science is always growing, changing.
Recently, two very basic things I learned as true I found out are false.
1. The main function of sex is to promote genetic diversity. FALSE.
"Rather, it's about keeping the genome context -- an organism's complete collection of genes arranged by chromosome composition and topology -- as unchanged as possible, thereby maintaining a species' identity." Read about that here.
2. Organisms with identical genes will develop in the same way under identical conditions. Except for identical human twins, that is. FALSE.
Read about that here.
There was another one, but I am getting old and I forgot what it was.
I love ScienceDaily. :)
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