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The Time Scale of Evolutionary Innovation by technicalemailbox is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document explores the time scale required for evolutionary innovations, focusing on how long it takes for populations to discover new biological functions in relation to the length of genetic sequences. It establishes that adaptation on many fitness landscapes generally requires exponential time in sequence length, but introduces a regeneration process that allows evolution to operate on polynomial time scales. The findings highlight a critical threshold in the width of target sequences that determines
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