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Nature versus nurture

21 July 2020

Are we shaped more by our genes or the environment in which we grow up and live? The truth involves both – and is a lot more complicated than we thought.

Blind cave fish lost eyes by unexpected evolutionary process

12 October 2017

The discovery that a cavefish might have lost its sight because key eye genes were switched off via epigenetics, rather than mutation, will fuel an evolutionary debate

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Nature versus nurture

Blind cave fish lost eyes by unexpected evolutionary process

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