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Two 9,000-year-old skeletons will be held by University of California, San Diego, officials—rather than turned over to American Indians for reburial—until a lawsuit is settled.
Human-specific duplications of a gene involved in brain development may have contributed to our species’ unique intelligence.
Researchers investigate a microorganism that may warrant a new eukaryotic kingdom in the classification of life.
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Inspired by Darwin, Mohamed Noor has uncovered the molecular dance by which a single species becomes two.
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From accounts of deformed animals to scratch-and-sniff technology, Robert Boyle's early contributions to the Royal Society of London were prolific and wide ranging.
House mice sing melodies out of the range of human hearing, and the crooning is impacting research from evolutionary biology to neuroscience.
An evolutionary biologist’s posthumous publication restores the peppered moth to its iconic status as a textbook example of evolution.
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