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He did not assume that the pace of change was constant, however, and recognized that many species retained the same form for long periods. Still, if evolution is gradual, there should be a ...

In a wind-swept stretch of Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains, paleontologists digging through Jurassic-era stone have ...

"The long-term environmental induction experiment is a novel approach in the context of phenotypic plasticity to show that environmental responses can be important for longer evolutionary periods." ...

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He did not assume that the pace of change was constant, however, and recognized that many species retained the same form for long periods. Still, if evolution is gradual, there should be a ...

“The long-term environmental induction experiment is a novel approach in the context of phenotypic plasticity to show that environmental responses can be important for longer evolutionary periods.” He ...