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The use of terms such as “higher” and “lower” to describe different forms of life shows that we tend to think of evolution not only as adaptive, but also in some sense as progressive. That sense can be defined in a way that makes it possible to show how some “neutral” polymorphisms could contribute to progressive evolution.
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Thoday, J. Non-Darwinian “evolution” and biological progress. Nature 255, 675–677 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/255675a0
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