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TWiEVO 88: Dog days of evolution in the shadows of Chernobyl

This Week in Evolution

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The Role of Hair and Hearing in Zebrafish

I think the key here might be defining what we mean by convergent evolution. Functional convergence where perceptions might be even from hair follicles, where perceptions of touch and things like that are happening,. versus hairs in the cochlea, where you're also perceiving something different. You could make a case that the function is the same even though the mechanics or the mechanism or the complex of proteins and related factors, keratin, kaitins, whatever it is, are coming together to exercise biology. I don't know. I have no idea.

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