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by saycheese 3434 days ago
Citing notable research might help me better understand your claim; it is very possible that I'm missing something, but that's not how evolution works to my knowledge, adoption of substantially new genetic features is rapid, but refinements or removal of unrelated genetic code is slow if it is not impacted by the substantive mutations.

Source: http://www.columbia.edu/~gap2118/papers/nature13827.pdf