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Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.

— Paul Berg

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

— Peter R. Grant

Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

— Dee Hock

The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.

— Marina Abramovic

As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.

— Ernst Mayr

There's no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA.

— Hendrik Poinar

If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.

— Steven Johnson

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

— Ernst Mayr

✗Opposing Perspectives

The process of speciation is completed with the cessation of genetic exchange.

— Peter R. Grant

Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.

— Ernst Mayr