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Understand heritable changes, relationships and adaptations without confusing them with individual responses to the environment.
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A review of altitude hypoxia distinguishes physiological responses in the first few days from changes it links to many generations. The distinction is useful, but by itself it does not establish which changes are inherited or what mechanisms are involved.
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Comparing structures can raise two distinct questions: whether they share an evolutionary origin or whether their resemblance arose independently. The relevant sources available here are encyclopedia entries, not independent scientific studies; the definitions are therefore presented as attributions, not as a corroborated synthesis.
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