Past is prologue: Genetic 'memory' of ancestral environments helps organisms readapt

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May 22, 2020, 2:00 pm580 ptsHot
Organisms carry long-term "memories" of their ancestral homelands that help them adapt to environmental change, according to a new study that involved raising chickens on the Tibetan Plateau and an adjacent lowland site.

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