What the flux? The evolution of oxygen cascades (Ep 86)
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What Is the Diffusing Capacity?
The amount of capillaries in the tissue and the amount of arithrocites within those capillaries determines diffusing capacity. What i understand about plasticity is that plastic systems is harder for selection to act on them, because they're different depending on the context. So why did the change happen in the system that's so variable that selection should have a hard time acting on it? The interest in thing to think about is that when they select for high endurance runners, they're selecting on anything that could lead to an increase in running endurance. Part of that may be behavior and motivation. And so if they're selecting for mice that just like running a lot more, the mice just
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