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Environmental 'memories' passed on for 14 generations
« on: April 25, 2017, 07:34:55 am »
Environmental 'memories' passed on for 14 generations

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    April 20, 2017
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    The impact of environmental change can be passed on in the genes of tiny nematode worms for at least 14 generations -- the most that has ever been seen in animals -- scientists have discovered.
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Re: Environmental 'memories' passed on for 14 generations
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2017, 09:10:18 am »
C. elegans


Remarkable!
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Re: Environmental 'memories' passed on for 14 generations
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2017, 09:12:13 am »
Natural Selection in super time lapse fashion.
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Re: Environmental 'memories' passed on for 14 generations
« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2017, 09:14:39 am »
Quote from: Suppressed on April 25, 2017, 09:10:18 am
C. elegans


They are actually pretty cool.

I've read that if you could make the earth invisible, you would be able to see a ghostly image of the continents made up of all the nematodes.
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Re: Environmental 'memories' passed on for 14 generations
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2017, 03:45:59 pm »
Oh the liberals are just going to love this. Now they can apply this freely to fortify all their minority constituents' victimhood and offer 'memories' of past oppressions as proof of that status.
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