Six thousand reindeer once lived on a remote island in the Bering Sea
that was briefly their paradise. In what has become a classic story of
wildlife boom and bust, no reindeer live on St. Matthew Island now.
Three scientists just looked back at the St. Matthew's reindeer herd and
found that an extreme winter probably pushed the stressed animals to
their deaths.
Lamarck's Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics was about how organisms could change during their lifetime to adapt to their environments, and how those newly acquired characteristics could be passed down to offspring.
Resting metabolic rate is the rate in which your body burns energy to function while at rest.
