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Florida Museum of Natural History

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Polyploidy is in your heart and liver, in the vegetables you eat, in the rogue cells that cause cancer, and without it, humans wouldn’t exist. Yet only within the last few years have biologists begun to recognize its significance across the tree of life.

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Dana Robinson

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