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Theodore Garland Jr. of UC Riverside, Discusses His Research

Caption: Theodore Garland Jr., a professor of biology at the University of California-Riverside, describes findings from his lab showing that voluntary activity, such as daily exercise, is a highly heritable trait that can be passed down genetically to successive generations.

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