Experiments have revealed how single mutations can have huge effects that drive evolution. But small steps pave the way, finds Tanguy Chouard.
Tanguy Chouard
Since the origin of evolutionary science, biologists have insisted that adaptation is an achingly slow process. 'Natura non facit saltum' (nature does not take leaps) was a favourite incantation of Charles Darwin.
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