From the comments below the article;
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It's neat that there's a proteinomic correction mechanism, but how are those changes heritable?
Changes that can't be inherited aren't evolution. Your child doesn't inherit your peg-leg.
All this article seems to be saying is that protein expression is elastic, and that the system exists in an equilibrium state that can react to mutations; but we already kind of knew that you could substantially mutate the DNA "behind" a protein without significant effect on the function and activity of the protein.
I dunno, it's hard to get a sense of what's really going on from two levels of interpretation-for-the-layman away, but I really don't think this is as groundbreaking as is suggested. Or, it may be totally awesome.
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People seem to be again confused over evolution: it happens to your offspring at the moment of conception, not after. We'd be evolving all sorts of cool things if that was the case.