Aims:

Further Reading:
Campbell et al. Chapter 23

The problem we have to explain

Type-Writing Monkey

Random Guess: 1 out of 1040: This is a very unlikely event, so how on earth is evolution possible at all? For an answer of the type-writing monkey see also notes at the end of this lecture.

                                                         

 

 

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Natural Selection does it in little more than 40 generations!

What is Evolution?