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summerstay comments on What false beliefs have you held and why were you wrong? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: summerstay 19 October 2014 11:19:31AM 2 points [-]

I only recently realized that evolution works, for the most part, by changing the processes of embryonic development. There are some exceptions-- things like neoteny and metamorphosis-- but most changes are genetic differences leading to differences in, say, how long a process of growth is allowed to occur in the embryo.