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Adaptation of the Week – Channichthyidae Icefish Blood and Antifreeze

I owe the following example of evolutionary adaptation to the always amazing evolutionary and developmental biologist Dr. Sean B. Carroll, from his lecture “Making of the Fittest” for the Darwin College – Darwin Lecture Series, available at iTunes U (I highly recommend everyone give it a listen). Imagine that you are a fish – exothermic [...]

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