Activated PKB also promotes survival of many cultured cells by phosphorylating the Forkhead transcription factor FOXO3a on multiple serine and threonine residues.

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Natural selection was Darwin’s brilliant hypothesis, that accounts for adaptations, features that appear “designed” to fit organisms to their environment.

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Alfred Russel Wallace - Who was collecting specimens in the Malay Archipelago, had independently conceived of natural selection

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Populational change is Darwin’s hypothesis that evolution occurs by changes in the proportions (frequencies) of different variant kinds of individuals within a population.

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Where, though, do these hereditary variations come from?

This was the great gap in Darwin’s theory, and he never filled it. The problem was serious because, according to the prevailing belief in blending inheritance, variation should decrease, not increase.

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Orthogenesis - “Straight-line evolution,” held that the variation that arises is directed toward fixed goals.

So that a species evolves in a predetermined direction by some kind of internal drive, without the aid of natural selection.