
TWiEVO 90: The mystery of the mouse mummies
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The Evolution of Rodents
A mouse can go about four kilometers a day. These guys may be hardier. And this 6,000 meters is about, it was, is six kilometers, right? So, they could get there in two days, really. There's like a lot of capacity here in these rodents. They're already in living in pretty extreme environments to begin with. The mice are all kind of, you know, sort of in similar space. That implies that if this is sort of the beginnings of adapting to this high environment in new ways, it hasn't really happened yet.
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