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A Silent Gene Theory of Evolution

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Charles Darwin wrote in The Origin of Species that "unless profitable variations do occur, natural selection can do nothing."

As Darwin recognised, natural selection reduces variation in favour of an optimum type. So, what is the true source of variation in evolutionary systems?

This is a question which has obsessed Warwick Collins, a novelist who had studied biology at University and for much of his adult life.

In March 2000, Collins claimed that the required degree of variation could be achi...