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As institutions around the world start celebrations of Darwin Day, New York reveals a digitized catalog of Darwin’s scientific manuscripts.
Zebras may have evolved their striped coat to avoid blood-sucking flies.
The textbook example of Darwinian evolution is tested and confirmed.
Support for legislation that would allow creationism and other religious views to be taught alongside evolution in science classrooms wanes in the state’s House of Representatives
Researchers find a way to determine the sequence of a single species from metagenomics data of entire microbial communities.
Origin of life theories from a wide range of religions may be taught alongside evolution in the state.
A new study estimates the number of generations necessary to evolve from mouse-sized to elephantine, and shows that it’s quicker to get small.
A committee in the Indiana state legislature OKs a bill aimed at getting creationism into public school science classes.
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