Talked about in the last few minutes of this podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5vfb https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5vfb “Researchers at Va

Talked about in the last few minutes of this podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5vfb https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5vfb “Researchers at Vanderbilt University have been delving into the genetic evolution of horses to discover the mutation that’s behind their runaway metabolic success. Gianni Castiglione explains how a mutation that should have been catastrophic instead helped horses to evolve from the size of dogs to the giant athletic animals we know today.”