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Gradually Becoming Big

Feb 02, 2012

Elephants don't grow so large overnight. And a new study published in PNAS shows that it takes at least 24 million generations for a mammal the size of a mouse to evolve into something as big as an elephant, reports Veronique Greenwood at Discover magazine's 80beats blog.

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