Point mutations, gene duplication, splicing errors, and plain old cosmic ray damage are the source of genetic change that provide new information.
Every time there's a copy error, or a letter is damaged by a cosmic ray and repaired wrongly, that's a new genome.
Every time there's a copy error, or a letter is damaged by a cosmic ray and repaired wrongly, that's a new genome.
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