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#537 Christopher Kuzawa: Developmental Plasticity, Life History, and Epigenetics

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Epigenetics and the Environment

Epigenetics is part of that, rite, this kind of sensitivity to the environment, how that plays into the evolutionary process. The origins of phenotipic novelty tend to be plasticity in the environment shaping plasticity. Epigenetic variants are then selected through natural selection by natural selection. It's bringing up the rear and generating the peno typeotype that's generating the genotypes.

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