Attics aren’t the only places you’ll find old secrets from the past, begging to be rediscovered or let out. You have them in you as well. I’m not talking about the the type of secrets you keep to yourself and only tell close friends. I’m talking about those like the ones you’ll find in old attics.  Secrets you don’t even know are there.  These secrets are locked in your DNA. Every once in a while, those secrets come back to haunt us.

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Works Cited

  • Atavism: Embryology, Development and Evolution | Learn Science at Scitable. www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/atavism-embryology-development-and-evolution-843.

  • Biology Dictionary. “Atavism.” Biology Dictionary, June 2017, biologydictionary.net/atavism.

  • Carey, Bjorn. “Surprise: Chickens Can Grow Teeth.” livescience.com, 22 Feb. 2006, www.livescience.com/7051-surprise-chickens-grow-teeth.html.

  • Korzh, Vladimir, and Eugene V. Gasanov. “Genetics of Atavism.” Russian Journal of Developmental Biology, vol. 53, no. 3, Springer Science+Business Media, June 2022, pp. 221–30. https://doi.org/10.1134/s1062360422030043.

  • Lambert, Katie. “How Atavisms Work.” HowStuffWorks, Mar. 2023, science.howstuffworks.com/life/evolution/atavism1.htm.

  • “Snake Heart: A Case of Atavism in a Human Being.” PubMed, 2010, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21224948.

  • Walia, Ishmeet. “Snake Heart: A Case of Atavism in a Human Being.” PubMed Central (PMC), 2010, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3014134.

Music in this Episode

  • Two Boys and a Girl by Podington Bear, License (CC BY 3.0): Artist website: soundofpicture.com
  • Dread by Podington Bear, License (CC BY 3.0): Artist website: soundofpicture.com
  • Mutinee by Podington Bear, License (CC BY 3.0): Artist website: soundofpicture.com
  • Nocturne Op 27 No 1
  • Puzzler by Podington Bear, License (CC BY 3.0): Artist website: soundofpicture.com

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