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echidnas hatch from an egg and delicious as they mature m. Why do the echidnas have bristles with different thicknesses?

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They have different versions of the gene for bristle thickness that connect together to make the bristle thickness in general.

It’s like when you have 6 toothpicks and combine two together, you’ll have 1 really thick one and the others will be small.
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