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Ep 14: Plasticity? Sounds fishy.

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The Role of Plasticity in Evolutionary Biology

I'm art woods, and i'm marty martin. You're listening to big biology. We typically define plasticity as a very simple phenomenon. The same set of genes can produce a diversity of different types of phenotypes depending on the environmental context that organisms find themselves in. And it's particularly important when you start to ask, how exactly do organisms evolve and adapt to their environments?

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