50 years ago, armadillos hinted that DNA wasn’t destiny
Excerpt from the November 30, 1968, issue of Science News
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SCALY SCIENCE Nine-banded armadillos have their offspring four at a time, each genetically identical. But scientists now know that identical DNA isn’t everything.
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