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Is Evolution Reversible

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deerbreh
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05-26-2009 12:14 PM

To answer the OP:
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No. You can't "reverse" something which has no direction to start with.
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On the other hand, is natural selection reversible? - that is can a gene change in frequency and then change back to the original frequency within a population? Absolutely.
  
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