Readers who have watched the Simpsons may recall ‘Blinky’, a mutated fish with three eyes. Mr. Burns famously put forward that Blinky was the next step in the evolutionary ladder, not some horrible mutant. And maybe he was right. Mutants – one-off anomalies – can represent huge leaps of macroevolution. But not at the expense of the organism.

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