July 2012's selection of notable quotes
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The discovery of the 2.5-million-year-old Taung Child skull marked a turning point in the study of human brain evolution.
Research is underway to reduce the use of food crops for biofuels by shifting to dedicated energy crops and agricultural residues.
The second of the two controversial bird flu papers is published in Science, revealing that just five mutations can render the virus transmissible between ferrets.
Shortly after a rat infested supply ship ran aground in Lord Howe Island off the east coast of Australia in 1918, the newly introduced mammals wiped out the island's phasmids—stick insects the size of a human hand. Ever since, phasmids have been cons
Plant research remains grossly underfunded, despite the demand for increased crop production to support a growing population.
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Researchers rediscover a giant insect, thought to have gone extinct a century ago, and plan to reintroduce it to its native island off the coast of Australia.
In pondering genome structure and function, evolutionary geneticist Laurence Hurst has arrived at some unanticipated conclusions about how natural selection has molded our DNA.
Infested plants pass on a defense memory of pests and pathogens to help the next generation withstand invasions.
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