Scientists are now using artificial intelligence to conduct evolutionary experiments, revealing alternative pathways that nature did not explore, potentially leading to new therapies and applications.
In his 1989 book Wonderful Life, Stephen Jay Gould argued that if evolution could be replayed, the outcome would be entirely different, suggesting that humans might not have emerged.
Gould's assertion that altering any early event in evolution could lead to radically different outcomes echoes themes in Ray Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder about the butterfly effect.
The advent of AI technology offers new insights into evolution, allowing researchers to recreate processes or explore new pathways that present-day biology did not uncover.
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