Thank you to Anne Billson for this. It’s Ray Harryhausen’s “eohippus” or dawn horse in the weird Valley of the Gwangi.
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Nature Wins Over Nurture in the Gaited Horse
We talk very easily about “a gene for this” or “a gene for that” but most of our characteristics have more complex biological origins than a single strand of DNA. That’s perhaps why it’s such a surprise to read this story, which my brother, Sarah Everts and Christine Wilsdon all sent me. Researchers at Uppsala …
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