Is it conceivable that human made transgenesis could speed up the evolution of species ?

21 March 2019 0 2K Report

According to the hypothesis of Gehring and Gojobori natural transgenesis occurred already some 500 million years ago (in the case of rhodopsin from dinoflagellates to jelly fish). According to them we did not invent transgenesis!

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