Absolutely fascinating article in the NY Times about how ivory poaching is directly impacting the evolutionary adaptations of elephants, in ways that not only let them escape the carnage by poachers, but may also prove a catastrophe for the species.
The second intriguing suggestion in the article is around how trauma can affect the genome, something theorists have proposed over the years is evident in the generational transmission of traumatic race memory among human beings.
Well worth the read, and not too scientific to be a challenge for us lay people...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/scien...sMbTD_ZdQA
The second intriguing suggestion in the article is around how trauma can affect the genome, something theorists have proposed over the years is evident in the generational transmission of traumatic race memory among human beings.
Well worth the read, and not too scientific to be a challenge for us lay people...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/scien...sMbTD_ZdQA