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Ep 14: Plasticity? Sounds fishy.

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The Evolutionary Response to Preditors

In a sense, that's a highly novel thing for that dilineage rat. And in fact, if you look at these transcripts, what we found is that, a, compared to the source population where they came from and the introduction fish, they are now less plastic. So when you look at their response to the presence and absence of the predatecue, their plasticityis much lower. Ah, it gets they reach very high densities, id becomes a very competitive environment. It's actually even worse than that. Oh, oh, ok. Well, do tell because it's not just predators. Everything else changes. Take the predators away, the population grows. In some

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