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University of Michigan: Past Is Prologue - Genetic 'Memory' of Ancestral Environments Helps Organisms Readapt
May 22, 2020
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 22 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release on May 21:

Organisms carry long-term "memories" of their ancestral homelands that help them adapt to environmental change, according to a new study that involved raising chickens on the Tibetan Plateau and an adjacent lowland site.

The study provides new insights into how creatures adapt to changing environments, a topic that's especially relevant in the context of . . .

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