>>12152272I don't have any formal education in evolution, but this question seems to be posed incorrectly or without enough information. I'll try to break this up into a few different questions that others could answer more accurately, and my own uninformed take.
Is it possible to...
>increase the mutation rate of a living system?Bacteria can develop resistance to antibiotics quickly enough to be tested by scientists
https://www.reactgroup.org/toolbox/understand/antibiotic-resistance/mutation-and-selection/Yet humans do not seem to change that much very quickly, and I believe some animals have the ability to essentially clones themselves. I think the complexity of multi-cellar/-tissue organisms help obfuscate how quickly they are evolving; for example, you would probably notice a change in an engine very quickly if you just looked at the engine, but the difference might not be so readily apparent to a person who is looking at the entire car. Factors such as the temporal length of life cycles, the mechanisms by which genetic information is encoded/decoded, the environment and nutrition the organisms have access to, etc. could all have some form of impact on the mutation rate I would intuit.
>increase the coexistence of different mutants within a population?No idea, but I thought the question was interesting!
>predict which mutations will (likely) be more advantageous than others in the future?You can do this about as accurately as you can predict the weather. You cannot possibly tell what will occur in the future with absolute certainty; that being said, not all possible futures are equally likely, and we can determine that some are more likely than others even with the incomplete information we possess (your evolutionary climate if you will). Except in some extreme thought-experiments, this will almost certainly never lend support to actively and willfully culling particular mutant populations. Let's not get political though
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