FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Sam Donovan PR Management, Inc. Jeffrey Epstein: Understanding Evolution is Key to Understanding Genetics New research reveals the ways in which living organisms adapt and "learn" new skills—a finding that has warranted the attention of science philanthropist. Jeffrey Epstein. New York, New York, October 25, 2012— For living creatures, adapting to new circumstances and learning new skills are both necessary for survival. This is true not only on a macro level, among humans and animals, but also on a genetic level. Scientists have long speculated as to how living organisms can learn new skills when drawing from a limited gene pool, but new research offers some insight—and it has won the attention of scientific philanthropist Jeffrey Epstein, a vocal proponent of evolutionary research and financial founder of The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University. The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics which started with a $30 million dollar grant from Epstein, uses mathematics, genetics and bio-chemistry to study the evolution of living things. The new research, undertaken by UC Davis microbiologist Dr. John Roth, seeks to answer the question of how genes learn new skills. The common theory has long been that genes duplicate by accident, and that duplicate genes mutate and develop new skills; if the skill proves useful, then the gene is more likely to spread. Roth's research has provided insight into how this theory fits in with the broader framework of natural selection. According to the scientist, genes effectively develop two functions—primary and secondary ones—and one skill might become more favored as it becomes more useful or necessary. Less-than-useful skills are weeded out through natural selection. This research has been heralded for the insight it brings both to the field of genetics and to the study of evolution. 14-has-wen-the-favec-ef--caen-like-Jeffrey-Epsteinr in-partieular-A4eng-time state