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What Is the Difference Between Genetics and Environment?

In an aquarium in Germany, a crayfish lays off spring without any contact with a male and all the offspring are female. The scientists got hold of these creatures because they were fascinated by them. They realized that they could isolate causation because everything's the same. And anything that happens in these creatures which is different must be to do with their environment. But there's something else. There's some other factor and people have wrestled for a term to describe what this is - intangible variation.

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