How - and how not - to think about the role randomness plays in evolution | Aeon Videos

Robin May emphasizes that while natural selection is crucial, random events significantly influence evolution. Evolutionary history is shaped not just by survival of the fittest but also by chance events like meteor strikes.

In his lecture, May argues that genetic drift, a process of random changes in allele frequencies, can have long-term effects on a population's evolution, which challenges the sole reliance on natural selection to explain species' survival.

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